Mien Tay Quotes

#1. All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll learn nothing from it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.

Nick Hornby

#2. No party should fear to go before the people for their decision.

Robert Lee Yates

#3. I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

Gabrielle Union

#4. If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

Sandra Cisneros

#5. There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can ... Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

David Guterson

#6. Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

Wil Wheaton

#7. And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved.

Jude Watson

#8. Overall, books and art were a safer escape from reality than sleep.

Lisa Cach

#9. I felt the tears streak down my cheeks but I wasn't crying.

Tahereh Mafi

#10. I've never played anyone who didn't like themselves. I don't care if they're unattractive, but it's important that they think of themselves as attractive. And I guess that's part of their charm.

Amy Sedaris

#11. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

#12. I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.

Philip Roth

#13. I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Vince Vaughn

#14. It was this big talk, not the persistent southwesterly breeze, that had prompted New York editor Charles Anderson Dana to nickname Chicago the Windy City.

Erik Larson