Quotes About Distant Relatives

#1. Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I'd love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who's without illusions, he created.

Robert Pattinson

#2. If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

Paul McCartney

#3. The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

Walter Kirn

#4. I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

Eve Jihan Jeffers

#5. She had hauled out Grandma O'Donnell's crystal plates, the ones Gram claimed were hand-cut by our distant relatives in County Kerry during the potato famine. She also said Big Foot crashed her eighteenth birthday party.

Susan Kaye Quinn

#6. Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032

L. Douglas Hogan

#7. No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

Nas

#8. We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

Jimmy Carter

#9. The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once

Greg Egan

#10. Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Herbert Hoover

#11. Like a subscription to a magazine, thought Peter. The period during which I am allowed to be happy has expired.

Charlie Lovett

#12. What have they done to your poor arm?' - Holly
'Oh, don't worry, it's just a graze.' - Lucy
'I'm talking about the bandages. That's simply the most incompetent bit of first aid I've ever seen. Lockwood, George - how much dressing did you use?

Jonathan Stroud

#13. If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

Lenny Bruce

#14. Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Damian Marley

#15. Time does not heal all wounds, no matter how many drugstore sympathy cards hastily scrawled by distant relatives promise this to be true.

Julie Buxbaum