Bookaholic Cafe Quotes & Sayings

I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography. — Marilyn Manson

I'm a producer ... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen? — Matt Stone

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. — William J. Clinton

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full. — Karen Quan

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose. — Emo Philips

Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted but was unable to run for a lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again. — Louis Menand

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues. — Charles Burnett

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me. — Maria Callas

Things I can do are not limited by the illisions of restrictions — Artsolameelian

But I contend that most of what we're consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we're consuming it - in the car, in front of the TV, and, increasingly, alone - is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term. — Michael Pollan

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life. — Jim Henson

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

People that live on the edge of two millenniums are people of a special destiny — Sunday Adelaja