I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path;… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times. — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in… — B. H. Roberts Copy Share Image
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave,… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
