Poltrock Chicago Quotes

#1. Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.

John Shimkus

#2. You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

John Wooden

#3. Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

D. J. Enright

#4. Hope is the real magic, child" -Brimstone

Laini Taylor

#5. In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#6. It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.

Victoria Moran

#7. Think before you act: it's not your money.

Robert Heller

#8. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide.

Steve Kanaly

#10. We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Tracy McMillan

#11. You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.

William Boughton

#12. I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Anthony Hopkins

#13. The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.

Per Petterson