Schlesinger Surveys Quotes

#1. I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

Truman Capote

#2. The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

Robin G. Collingwood

#3. It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.

Kristen Ashley

#4. He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Socrates

#5. Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Leonard Bernstein

#6. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Kenny G

#7. Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Child molesters must all think they've got huge dicks.

Anthony Jeselnik

#9. For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Upasana Saraf

#10. When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

Mario Batali

#11. Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#12. The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

William Shakespeare