Robert Smigel Quotes

#1. All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. America has become a country full of big men in little cars.

Stephen King

#3. I glared daggers at him, but they just bounced off him like water on a freshly waxed car.

H.P. Mallory

#4. Remember kids: brush your greens, eat your teeth, stay in milk, drink your school, don't do sleep, and get your eight hours of drugs!

Robert Smigel

#5. The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Anthony Bourdain

#6. People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

Neil Kinnock

#7. Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#8. A fantastic thing is happening in our world. Today a man is no longer punished only for the crimes he has in fact committed. Now he may be compelled to confess to crimes that have been conjured up by his judges, who use his confession for political purposes.

Joost A.M. Meerloo

#9. Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.
Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother

Lena Dunham