Bad Influenceeas Quotes & Sayings

I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the ... love, I guess. That means a lot to me. — Victoria Chang

I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs. — Michael McClung

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it? — Eddie Izzard

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age. — Richard O'Brien

Stephen Littlejohn is dead," Mr. Parrish shouted at her mother. "You are mine, and you will do as you are bid. You and your daughter are mine. — Lori Benton

The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained. — Margaret Atwood

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water. — David Eagleman

To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. — Joseph Heller