Mort Goldman Quotes

#1. The guy walking past was wearing a shit five sizes too big (innovated by gangbangers to hide guns in their waistbands), shorts down below his knees (innovated by surfers to keep their thighs from getting sunburned), and oversized shoes (innovated by skaters to save their feet from injury).

Scott Westerfeld

#2. This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

Anatoly Karpov

#3. My interior was a wreck, a car crash, a plane crash, a family tragedy, financial misfortune. My body was sitting tight but my soul was not.

Jordan Krall

#4. Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

Matthew Quick

#5. The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

Francois Fenelon

#6. Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

Dean Koontz

#7. A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.

Patricia Highsmith

#8. The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Mark Twain

#9. I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.

Spike Lee

#10. The church embodies the power of the resurrection in the midst of a not-yet-redeemed world.

Richard B. Hays

#11. My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#12. Grandma Mary would say, "That's why so many young women are marrying so many older men, because there aren't any more being raised. She would rather be an older man's sweetheart than a young man's fool and slave.

Lyanta' J. Tomlin

#13. She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Michael Apted