Pitchfork Ben Tillman Quotes

#1. Are you all right?"
"Oh my god! I phased!"
"Are you all right?"
"Are you?"
"It was strange."
"I can't believe I phased just then! That's never ... it was totally your fault."
"I like to think so, yes."
"Tee hee.

Joss Whedon

#2. If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

Randall Jarrell

#3. My brother is a professional boxer. Heavyweight? No, featherweight. He tickles his opponents to death!

Various

#4. The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. There might be other forms of life who were receiving the noise and trying to interpret the tones.

Jane Hamilton

#6. notice these inconsistencies: Christian and anti-Christian polemicists

Richard Brookhiser

#7. There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

Shane Carruth

#9. Pippin ordered Childeric III tonsured and sent to a monastery, where he died five years later, the last of the Merovingians.

Susan Wise Bauer

#10. If she gave up, let them capture her again, they would provide light, or at least food. But the thought of trading freedom for life was repulsive.

Christie Valentine Powell

#11. rolling eye balls

Homer

#12. Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!

Shannon Hale

#13. On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Jasper Fforde

#14. The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

John Yarmuth