Anholt Nation Quotes & Sayings

One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. — Aaron Haspel

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other. — Hamilton Leithauser

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. — Neil Kinnock

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. — G.K. Chesterton

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect ... For after all, they could be my people. — James A. Michener

Look around you. Watch how people function and interact with one another. You'll see this is going on everywhere all the time. People devour each other in the name of love, or family or country. But that's an excuse; they're just hungry and want to be fed. Read their faces, the newspapers, read what it says on their T-shirts! 'I think you're mistaking me for someone who gives a shit.' 'My parents went to London but all they brought me back was this lousy T-shirt.' 'So many women, so little time.' 'Whoever dies with the most toys, wins.' They're supposed to be funny, witty, and postmodern, Miranda. But the truth is they're only stating a fact: Me. I come first. Get out of my way. — Jonathan Carroll

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened. — Andy Rooney

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world. — Anna Quindlen