Wentland Snider Quotes

#1. We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken - or are in the process of taking - from that special place.

Patricia Calvert

#2. Are you up? Dressing? (Astrid)
No. I'm pissing on your rug. What do you think I'm doing? (Zarek)
I'm blind. For all I know you really are peeing on my rug, which is a very nice rug incidentally, so I hope you're kidding. (Astrid)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

Wade Boggs

#4. A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

Paule Marshall

#5. The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

Adrianne Palicki

#6. Come on, wife. Come take a little ride with me. Let me show you all the things you'll be missing when you go back East and leave me here with a broken heart.

Elle Casey

#7. The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes - a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance - with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

Jonathan Franzen

#8. If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

Marcus Sedgwick

#9. You see, Miss Granger, people do not grow up because of time, people grow up when they are placed in grownup situations.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#10. My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. Instead of seeing ourselves as people trying to connect with people, let's see the church as people trying to connect with God and help others do the same.

James MacDonald

#12. There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

Jill Bennett

#13. A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

Cassandra Clare

#14. The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

James Baldwin

#15. But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

Joe Arpaio