May Quote by Edmund Waller

Those who flashin' don't blast, they still buffoons, Just blowin out hot air, they should fill balloons. I'm like them shorties that could kill…

— Elzhi

The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

— Wallace Stevens

A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that…

— T. R. Pearson

I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own.…

— John Gay

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

— Elton John

“Imagine having a well-cultivated pirate crew and established career as the terror of the seas, only to have some bloody ten-year-old show up claiming…

— Austin Chant

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

— Christopher Walken

To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs…

— Spider Robinson

“There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue beard, Yellowbeard, and Yellow beard with Black Roots, who surmised…

— Cuthbert Soup

“In Victorian London they used to burn phosphorus at seances in an attempt to see ghosts, and I suspect that the pop-music equivalent is…

— Nick Hornby

British comedy fans go crazy.

— Chris Lilley