Sempervirens Venture Quotes

#1. The trick to not killing yourself was to convince yourself, every single day, that your departure from the world would have a devastating effect on absolutely everyone around you, despite consistent evidence to the contrary.

Jennifer DuBois

#2. There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.

Rick Yancey

#3. Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

Sarah Silverman

#4. There are some things that no amount of time or patience can mend. I know that from experience.

Colleen Masters

#5. People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

Marya Mannes

#6. He knew he was reeling down in Mary's estimation and he wanted her to love him and to admire him. At the same time there was a fine steel wire of truthfulness in him that cut off the heads of fast-traveling lies.

John Steinbeck

#7. Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

Thornton Wilder

#8. An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

Jack Gantos

#10. He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.

Rachel Caine

#11. The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

Robert Blake

#12. It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

James Gleick