Andskotinn Quotes & Sayings

There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about. — Steve Albini

Many a blessing has been recognized too late. — John Lubbock

The only thing I don't have is hips. — Estelle

I want to feel you up like we're sixteen in the backseat of a car. On the outside of your clothes," he said just above a whisper. "Touch you all over, then slide my hands up under your shirt. — Rachel Gibson

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product. — Manoj Bhargava

Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion of history, and tends to regard Jesus as an apostate. How odd that the Jews would accept a Christian version of one of their brethren rather than seeking to discover the man entombed beneath the myth. — Shmuley Boteach

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead. — Adam Haslett

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist. — Donald O. Hebb

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. — Patti Smith

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion. — Alexander Cockburn

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about. — Francoise Sagan

Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. — William Shakespeare

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience. — Susanne Bier