Typified Def Quotes

#1. The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

Alexander Theroux

#2. Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Tom T. Hall

#3. I've been all around. I've made a complete revolution. And I've come back to the fact that I need you.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.

Liza Minnelli

#5. There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

Patrick Henry

#6. A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Wendell Berry

#7. The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story.

Paul Feyerabend

#8. For our soul is raised out of nature through the truly sublime, sways with high spirits, and is filled with proud joy, as if itself had created what it hears.

Longinus

#9. Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Tim Hetherington

#10. I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.

Teddy Thompson

#11. I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

Eric Weiner

#12. When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

Patsy Rodenburg

#13. Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

Curtis Jackson

#14. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw