Silbey Artist Quotes

#1. Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

Susan Orlean

#2. How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery.

Rae Carson

#3. I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

Lisa Bonet

#4. I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

Ralph Lauren

#5. No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

Lefty Gomez

#6. And more often than not, who we think we need isn't at all who we really need.

Gina L. Maxwell

#7. I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing.
"Helping you," said Dirnes.
"Why?"
They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened to look me in the eye. "Because I know nothing about kings and princes, but I know men.

Megan Whalen Turner

#8. The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

Guy Burgess