Whittam Street Quotes

#1. [Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die ... especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

Truman Capote

#2. I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

Peter Agre

#3. I can shoot a basket pretty well.

Erin Heatherton

#4. It is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. How on earth could he find the time to care for her when he was inundated with work?

Ayse Kulin

#6. It was frustratingly common that children were no sooner gone from the nest and established in their own homes ... than they began to infantilize their own parents and wish them dead, or at least in assisted living.

Helen Simonson

#7. Give a try; give a shot. Sometimes, you must not only expect the way to be too clear; strike when you can!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Hey this is terrific!" Zaphod said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!

Douglas Adams

#9. Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

Warren Beatty

#10. We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

Tom Waits

#11. Love's not my religion. I don't wait, I don't hope, and I don't believe. I'm free; I take.

Jaxy Mono

#12. Her calculations have always held the utmost accuracy, but mathematics alone will not be enough to guide her; she must learn to trust in chance and, if need be, in accident.

John Pipkin