Gloomier Crossword Quotes

#1. The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Alison Bechdel

#2. So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Jill Soloway

#3. The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

Brantley Gilbert

#7. God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

Leo Strauss

#8. The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

David McIntosh

#9. Grammar was the only place the girl could keep her father alive.

Anthony Marra

#10. My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

Dorothy Malone

#11. Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#12. Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

Val Kilmer

#13. It was another cabin with a stoop, and a dooryard beaten bare.

Marilynne Robinson

#14. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

Anonymous

#15. It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

Neil Patrick Harris