Scaul's Quotes

#1. Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure,

Debby Applegate

#2. The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Julio Cortazar

#4. Americans just want us to ... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified ... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

John Glenn

#5. The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

George Carlin

#6. County supervisors relented only after losing their case in the U.S. Supreme Court, choosing finally to reopen the schools rather than face imprisonment.

Isabel Wilkerson

#7. Helping people too much only makes them helpless.

Frank Sonnenberg

#8. You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Kid Rock

#9. 'It's hard to come by peanuts that crack so nice and crisp,' said J.

Haruki Murakami

#10. This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Aberjhani