Kupcinet Journalist Quotes

#1. I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

Tom Verlaine

#2. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

John Steinbeck

#3. At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised

Michele Bardsley

#4. Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

Robert Harris

#5. May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Pope John Paul II

#6. But not one tear did I shed for their delight. I was her brave warrior, brave as the warriors who marched through my dreams.

Anne Berry

#7. If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

John Hodgman

#9. Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Euripides

#10. They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.

Albert Camus

#11. We talkin' bout practice?

Allen Iverson