Unexciting Crossword Quotes

#1. I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Aaron Huey

#2. There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement.

George Vecsey

#3. Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

Dan Meyer

#4. When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

Edmund Phelps

#5. It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

Rob Delaney

#6. To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.

Tony Robbins

#7. I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

David Chang

#8. It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#9. Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

Andrew Sullivan

#10. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

#11. It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. When you get to a point where there's absolutely nothing you can count on in this world, you're home free.

Art Hochberg

#13. Today, you are the goddess my universe revolves around.

C.D. Reiss

#14. Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

Danny Trejo

#15. You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

Robert Harris