Ritually Unclean Quotes

#1. This makes me feel ritually unclean.

Don DeLillo

#2. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Will Carleton

#3. Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge (except, indeed, poor Clifford's wits) that the grinder might apply the article to his magic wheel, and give it back as good as new.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

Vince Vaughn

#5. I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it'd read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I'd been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.

David Lipsky

#6. I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.'

Michael Moore

#7. I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#8. - You are unarmed?
+ Always
- You stand alone?
+ Often
- You are the one who should be afraid.
+ Never
- Have a nice day then.

Stephen Moffat

#9. To be alive is to move around, to search for better places, to scavenge the planet looking for more hospitable islands.

Fatema Mernissi