Crankcase Ventilation Quotes & Sayings

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do. — Alan Hollinghurst

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind- — Rick Riordan

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves. — Patricia Marx

The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, I post, therefore I am. — Os Guinness

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. — Peter Davison

Sefalin coddled his father's head in his lap. The old man's eyes were becoming glassy. Reminded of the elves, Lozane said, "Have you done as they say, my boy? Have you dredged up the Coda Uma and let it go to that blackheart Helix?"
Tears burst from Prince Sefalin's eyes. He couldn't speak, just nodded. His lips flushed a deeper purple. His hair was matted to his reddened forehead by blood. From head to toe he wore spatters and blotches of cadaverous slime and melting snowflakes. A vein in his temple throbbed hotly while mucus dripped from his nose. — Leonard Mokos

I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves. — Nina Kuscsik

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it. — Bear Bryant

Handcuffs. Kinky. But I prefer to have a bit more freedom during sex. Don't you? — Jennifer Estep

I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go. — Elton John

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another. — William Hurrell Mallock

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass

He started to talk about my writing and I stopped listening. I was embarrassed and it made me feel sick for people to talk about my writing to my face, and I looked at him and his marked-for-death look and I thought, you con man conning me with your con. I've seen a battalion in the dust on the road, a third of them for death or worse and no special marks on them, the dust was for all, and you and your marked for death look, you con man, making a living out of your death. Now you will con me. Con not, that thou be not conned. Death was not conning with him. It was coming all right. — Ernest Hemingway,

Not special at all." She changed her mind and leaned in to take a cookie. "I just heard my number called and thought I'd better show up. — Brigid Kemmerer