On Charlie Rose 2007 Quotes

#1. I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Marc Forster

#2. The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.

Douglas Adams

#3. Do this one thing.

Ron Rash

#4. I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

Jamaica Kincaid

#5. I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.

Chris Hardwick

#6. Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Dizzy Dean

#7. I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

Sloane Crosley

#8. It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

John Wooden

#10. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Robert Frost

#11. Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#12. The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

Cullen Murphy