Dead Authors Are Better Quotes

#1. You paying good money?"

"For what?"

"Information, asshole. You was the one said it."

"Depends on the information. But please, I had asshole legally dropped from my name.

"That was a mistake.

Joe R. Lansdale

#2. I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Martin Short

#3. Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James Buchan

#4. Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#5. Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.

Richard Armour

#6. But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

Peter Sotos

#7. Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

Colin Powell

#8. If you want an out-of-the-box event, you need to bring the idea out of the box.

Rehan Waris

#9. Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work.

William T. Vollmann