Interruptions And Overlaps Quotes

#1. Morris Berman has pointed out that museums characteristically present hard things, such as axes and spears, as evidence of early culture. But culture very likely begins with baskets made of reeds that are "soft" and hold emptiness.

Robert Bly

#2. I have been thinking, he says. Kingdoms have been known to fall in the wake of his thoughts.

Jennifer Ellision

#3. Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

#4. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.

Pamela Paul

#5. The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

Oscar Peterson

#6. Love of sugar had to mean true love. It just had to.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Katy Perry

#8. I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky ... a pulsating force of incredible energy.

David Arquette

#9. If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

St. Jerome

#10. One of the reasons we require immigrants to learn English before they naturalize is that a person who cannot understand English will not be able to participate in the political community in any but the most limited capacity.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#11. Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.

Michael Koryta