Post Catastrophe Quotes

#1. Even in some smoky post-catastrophe Manhattan you could imagine him swaying genially at the door in the rags of his former uniform, the Barbours up in the apartment burning old National Geographics for warmth, living off gin and tinned crabmeat.

Donna Tartt

#2. I really love peace and quiet.

Barry Sanders

#3. You are so ... odd."
"I shall take that as a compliment."
-Thor to No'One

J.R. Ward

#4. The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain
The grandest death, to die in vain
for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

George Eliot

#5. Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

James Merrill

#6. I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice.

Jason Mraz

#7. In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

Nikki Sixx

#8. The British, and most European countries, have struggled to accommodate Muslim immigrants, but they have nevertheless welcomed them in large numbers.

Jay Parini

#9. Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

Brian D. McLaren

#10. Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Charles Mingus