Polillo Island Quotes

#1. I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Floyd Abrams

#2. All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Willa Cather

#3. No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.

Lisa Lutz

#4. I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.

Nick Kroll

#5. Accelerating the emergence of an American industrial bourgeoisie, the war tied the fortunes of this class to the Republican party and the national state.

Eric Foner

#6. I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

Lydia Davis

#7. I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.

David Bowie

#8. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

Robin Williams

#9. It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

Michel Foucault

#10. We need to become sidha (straightforward); there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic).

Dada Bhagwan

#11. There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

Christian Bale