30 Americans Catalog Quotes & Sayings

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. — John Updike

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey

Do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields. — Madeleine Stowe

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand. — Constance Naden

Events are less important than our responses to them. — John Hersey

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director. — Quentin Tarantino

I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to. — Richard Patrick

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art. — Judith Martin

She's the woman I love. The woman my sick fucker of a father doesn't want me to love — Abbi Glines

We all stick up for ourselves and I think that's why we stand out, because we really don't care what other people think. — Nicole Polizzi