Mid Continent Library Website Quotes

#1. Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles

Bernard Herrmann

#2. The sea hates a coward.

Eugene O'Neill

#3. By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

#4. Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman

Rick Riordan

#5. There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!

William Morris Hunt

#6. I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

Saul Williams

#7. Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy as a bedbug. Oh,

Liane Moriarty

#8. What do you bring to this enterprise to justify a third of the profits?" "Will," said Iago.

Christopher Moore