Inquirers Define Quotes

#1. The use of food metaphors is really well established English ... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean

#2. I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Aaron Eckhart

#3. Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

Abel Korzeniowski

#4. Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

Robert Dallek

#5. I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Gordon Bell

#6. He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. The end comes when the infinites arrive.

David Bowie

#9. The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.

Pope John Paul II