Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying…

Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when…

— Michael Jackson

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best…

— Amy Chua

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly,…

— Anonymous

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted…

— Morgan Neville

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?”…

— Gaelen Foley

The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people…

— Walter Mosley

...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..

— William Faulkner

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct…

— George Will

I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says.…

— Daniel Henninger

By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you…

— Robert Graves