French Polynesian Sayings

#1. If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

John Updike

#2. If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

Bob Ehrlich

#3. Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

Bill Bryson

#4. Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Thomas Huxley

#5. 'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

Gillian Jacobs

#6. Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic."
"Is it seriously about fish?"
"Yeah, but really cool fish.

Alexandra Adornetto

#7. Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Nathalie Sarraute

#8. The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

Philip Roth

#9. Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Charles Spurgeon