Hillmont Quotes

#1. It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.

Frank Portman

#2. The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Nancy Kress

#3. The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

Jay Kay

#4. Neil had never seen him play like this, so intense and fast and determined, but Andrew had promises to keep and a goal to defend. With

Nora Sakavic

#5. If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

Taylor Swift

#6. No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

GG Allin

#7. I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.

Bill Ackman

#8. Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.

David Wessel

#10. He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

Bille August

#11. I thought women liked to be thought strange and mysterious." "No, they just like to look strange and mysterious. When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel.

Harper Lee

#12. She left them before Bagwy Llydiart, in midsentence. Geoffery and Sally got the subject and verb, and the girl who opened the farm door to her got the object.

Peter Dickinson

#13. Oh God, modern life with all its feelings ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#14. The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Horace

#15. Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

Sara Shandler

#16. Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

James Whitcomb Riley