Weathervanes Of Maine Quotes

#1. Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

Alice Munro

#2. The revelation of privacy: she can walk down the street and absolutely no one knows who she is. It's possible that no one who didn't grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens

Jean Harrington

#4. I am not 'I am' but just a spy in somebody's body.

Jack Kerouac

#5. I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

Clifford Geertz

#6. Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

Ingrid Michaelson

#8. Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

Quentin Crisp

#9. I was preparing myself for the theater, and ... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

James Earl Jones