Espantos Quotes

#1. Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.

Joel Coen

#2. Unfortunately for Sampson, the naked mole rat was in heat at the moment.

Vernon D. Burns

#3. Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Napoleon Hill

#4. The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

Benny Green

#5. I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Blake Bailey

#6. Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#7. A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

Ian Frazier

#8. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

Francis Pharcellus Church