Best Calvin Trillin Sayings
- I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. Answers
- I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious. Disturbed
- I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. Eat
- People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. Actual
- What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. Call
- Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting. Book
- Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food. Behaved
- Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry. Cry
- I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. Always Thought
- If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. Funny
- The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. Average
- What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. Campaigns
- When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. Delivery
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner… Always Operated
- The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First… Advertisement
- You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I… Every Week
- The price of purity is purists. Funny
- Why in the world are you a Republican? Inspirational
- By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same… Asked
- Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work. Degenerates
- Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through… Chicken
- Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist. American
- I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. Answers