Nymag Diaries Quotes

#1. The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff out of two-by-four wood. And I would straddle a two-by-four out from the helicopter with a camera and what we call a high hat, which is a low metal stand.

Haskell Wexler

#2. Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

Michelle Malkin

#3. If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Rob Morrow

#4. I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.

Toni Morrison

#5. God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.

Robert Ferrigno

#6. Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

#7. The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

Eduardo Galeano

#8. The first week I was here, a girl got canned for humming an Erasure song while she was churning butter. It's like, yeah, Erasure is historic, but not historic enough.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.

Carol Loomis

#10. Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#11. I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

Tommy Bolin

#12. I'm a very quotatious person.

Shaquille O'Neal