Nesty Quotes

#1. She was a scrap of a widow, ever so plucky, just back from China, with damp little hands, a husky voice, and defective tear-ducts that gave her eyes always rather a swimmy look. She had a prostrated way of looking up at you, and that fluffy, bird's-nesty hair that hairpins get lost in.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

Gus Van Sant

#3. My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.

Alonzo King

#4. Our technology has surpassed our humanity

Albert Einstein

#5. I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

Jason Bateman

#6. All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.

Blake Lewis

#7. I love September, especially when we're in it.

Willie Stargell

#8. When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.

Christian D. Larson

#9. Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Toni Morrison

#10. Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.

Bella Andre

#11. We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

James Clerk Maxwell

#12. My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

David Henry Hwang

#13. But I still didn't let myself dwell on any of the good things, you know? It's the good things that'll drive you mad with missing them.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. All those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, computers, and radar, and all those things - they all go haywire around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air.

J.K. Rowling

#15. I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

Novak Djokovic

#16. John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation.

Stephen Colbert