Solbakken Guest Quotes

#1. The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.

Bernie Sanders

#2. On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.

Virchand Gandhi

#3. Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

Linda Evangelista

#4. Conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.

Dennis Lehane

#5. Bringing the knife into view, Zeke beamed. "You don't know what hurt is; but, you will.

Wodke Hawkinson

#6. The real question my students are asking is "Why doesn't grammar make sense?"
And the answer is illuminating: grammar is a mirror to ourselves.

Gabriel Wyner

#7. And he thought of Katherine XIV, who wore a black bra and also a black everything else.

John Green

#8. Peace ... He should market it! ... He does every day. Through grateful pieces of the puzzle like you and me.

Julie Lessman

#9. I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Peter Heller

#10. I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#11. 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

Fantasia Barrino

#12. I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

Julianna Baggott

#13. It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own.

Clarence H. Burns