Screwup Crossword Quotes

#1. I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#2. Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

Curt Weldon

#3. My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.

Philip Pullman

#4. She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By ten, they had been made adult, forced like flowers to bloom early. But they were not flowers of love. They were flowers of work, to be put to work. There was no time.

Geoff Ryman

#5. You can tell more about a person in 60 seconds on Twitter than you can by reading a one page bio, if you excite them.

Joy Cook

#6. Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Aisha Tyler

#7. After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

Huey Lewis

#8. A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

Ovid

#9. Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself ...

Ray Bradbury

#10. The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

Barry Switzer

#11. Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

Mary Pope Osborne

#12. The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.

Clive Thompson

#13. There are kids who get on BMX bike when they are eight years old and they go,'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It is the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix