The New French Review Quotes

#1. Always call them 'Sir.' They aren't any harder to kill later!

Donald Hamilton

#2. Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

Scott Westerfeld

#3. Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Anne Carson

#4. This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

Dashiell Hammett

#5. Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from ... Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Jane Austen

#6. I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#7. Wild Woman teaches women when not to act "nice" about protecting their soulful lives.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#8. All that we do today ... will help change humanity for the better ... tomorrow!

Timothy Pina

#9. The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

Edmund White

#10. The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. 'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.

Dennis Quaid