Tinseltown Quotes

#1. I you look at the drawings of aliens made by people who believe that Earth is under saucer attack, you'll quickly note that most of these invaders fit the Tinseltown mold. But you have to admit: the grays are highly anthropomorphic.

Seth Shostak

#2. It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

James Carafano

#3. Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

Amanda Eliasch

#4. We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

#5. The incongruity between perceived and actual reality typically characterizes a whole industry or a whole service area. The solution, however, should again be small and simple, focused and highly specific.

Peter F. Drucker

#6. If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be?

Les Brown

#7. The world does not have to change ... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

Gerald Jampolsky

#8. Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Cory Doctorow

#10. I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.

Heather James

#11. I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#12. Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#13. If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.

Karl Ove Knausgard