Aside And Chorus Quotes & Sayings

This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all. — Jim Goldberg

The idea of, 'The journey is the destination' is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a 'More Like This' link on the internet. — Patton Oswalt

To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do."

Me imperturbe — Walt Whitman

Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really? — David Letterman

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. — Anthony Bourdain

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting. — Jonathan Franzen

Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176 — Fernando Pessoa

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that. — James R. Clapper

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived. — Kevin Rose

Burmese babies - fat, little, brown little divils, as — Rudyard Kipling

Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. ALBUS — J.K. Rowling

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends. — Aristophanes

A chocolate you did not want to eat does not count as chocolate. — Terry Pratchett

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed. — Sue Grafton