Ecolectic Quotes

#1. Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic (sic) reading list.

George W. Bush

#2. I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

Andrew O'Hagan

#3. I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.

William Landay

#4. I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

Tallulah Bankhead

#5. Intention is critical. It gets everything in motion.

Janet Conner

#6. How do you even know when you're anywhere near marrying someone? Is that question about time? Or distance?

Rainbow Rowell

#7. I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Abdolkarim Soroush