Etchison Quotes

#1. Her halo was never gold, or it couldn't have rusted so completely.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. If it were bottomless, it would not be a pit. The only thing that comes close to being a bottomless pit is the intrinsic depravity of mankind.

Ron Brackin

#3. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare

#4. Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.

Dennis Etchison

#5. The Baudelaires were sad to see a framed photograph of a kind-looking man with a handful of crackers in one hand and his lips pursed as if he were whistling. It was Ike, and the Baudelaires knew that she had placed his photograph there because she was too sad to look at it.

Lemony Snicket

#6. I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

James Dobson

#7. When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed.

Julia Roberts

#8. American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

Dennis Etchison

#9. I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

Adam Rapp

#10. We were written for one another, and I wouldn't change one line in our romance novel. The good, the bad, the in between. It's ours. We own it.

Gail McHugh

#11. Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.

Bernie Ecclestone

#12. My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.

Tom Tomorrow

#13. That is simply stunning.

Marc Thiessen

#14. I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#15. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

Francis Atterbury

#16. heading west on the 495.

Cheryl Etchison

#17. The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.'
Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad.

Richard Peck

#18. Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
("Talking In The Dark")

Dennis Etchison

#19. The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

P. W. Botha