Parsonnet Retractor Quotes

#1. When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.

Gregg Allman

#2. We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.

Dorothy Love

#3. Always," I tell him. He catches his breath and I lean away until I can see his eyes. "I'm scared of losing my heart to you. But I think it's a risk I'm willing to take.

Carrie Ryan

#4. There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

#5. To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.

Jonathan Nolan

#6. Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

Groucho Marx

#7. I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

Margaret Cho

#8. I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

Kathleen Turner

#9. Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Gaston Leroux

#10. He actually preferred the idea that one of his victims had sent the messages, there was a risk of the police finding out, a risk of jail or another psychopathic stalker, but having to listen to his mother nag him for the rest of his life seemed infinitely worse.

David Jester

#11. I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Joss Whedon

#12. Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Punching goblins, replied Sprockett soothingly, while offering short-term relief, has no long-term beneficial value

Jasper Fforde

#14. Arin thought of Cheat, Tensen, Kestrel. He wondered if some part of him was drawn to lies. What was it that made him so easy to deceive?

Marie Rutkoski

#15. I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

Iyanla Vanzant