Cordy Tindell Vivian Quotes & Sayings

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on. — Robert D. Kaplan

I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano. — Dave Barry

Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there. — Sean Connery

The book of nature has no beginning, as it has no end. Open this book where you will, and at any period of your life, and if you have the desire to acquire knowledge you will find it of intense interest, and no matter how long or how intently you study the pages, your interest will not flag, for in nature there is no finality. — Jim Corbett

Fruit ... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!" — Dylan Moran

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation. — Milton Friedman

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience. — Billy Corgan

If you ask people, 'What do you think, should we kick kids off their family insurance policy in that 21- to 26-year-old age range?' You go through those ... provisions that are already affecting the everyday lives of Americans, and people don't want to get rid of them. — Tim Kaine

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop. — Jack Kerouac

When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation. — Ann Nocenti

The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the ground can't participate minute by minute in Mars surface activities. — Henry Spencer

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson