Fionnuala Ni Quotes

#1. Rich tofu-eaters would move out to the country, buy a small farm that was going under anyway and then not know what to do with it. (See Green Acres and multiply by hundreds of thousands and both members Eva Gabor. But crossed with Karen Carpenter and take away all shreds of common sense.)

John Ringo

#2. If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Jonah Goldberg

#3. Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn't want to surface.

Katherine McIntyre

#4. I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.

Dominic Chianese

#5. Love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow ...

Tennessee Williams

#6. If you harm a horse do you make him better or worse?"
"Worse.

Plato

#7. Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

#8. As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

Robert Fortune

#9. I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Rob Roberge

#10. Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Friedrich Schiller

#11. If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

Meghan Daum

#12. Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Dean Koontz

#13. It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

Todd Barry

#14. Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.

James Mercer