Flunks Crossword Quotes

#1. Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.

Henri Murger

#2. East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Eva Gabor

#3. When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain.

Alexander Chee

#4. Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

James Gleick

#5. Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

Raghad Hussein

#6. Oh yeah, pain. I think it's the same when we lose someone we love. It never stops hurting. But maybe it shouldn't. That pain, after all, is a souvenir of love.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#7. There was no difference between men, in intelligence or race,

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

Dave Barry

#11. Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.

Tom Shroder

#12. I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, 'Marry him. You'll double your wardrobe.'

Joan Rivers

#13. I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.

Lynn Austin

#14. Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Dennis Flanagan

#15. The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

Pierre Berton