Mashaolsen Quotes

#1. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Tony Kushner

#2. Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

Bertha Von Suttner

#3. I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Frank Stella

#4. She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl!
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Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

Henry James

#5. I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Vanessa Mae

#6. Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

Judith Hanson Lasater

#7. So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

Jane Hirshfield

#8. Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

Gwyneth Paltrow

#9. I mean, you turn me on and I'm a bona-fide cock lover. I have no idea why that hot-blooded straight boy thought he could be anything but totally obsessed with you.

Leisa Rayven

#10. Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Samuel Johnson

#11. You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

Carly Simon

#12. If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Phyllis Diller

#13. If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

Paul Russell

#14. Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.

Nicolas Provost

#15. It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

O. Henry