Dadead Quotes & Sayings

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing. — Vikram Seth

When I read Spencer Madsen's poetry, I not only feel awe because he's so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It's the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad. — Dennis Cooper

Infinitesimally soon, the eternity of his own death would commence and render all of this unreal. — Jonathan Franzen

Substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one — Alexander McCall Smith

To Karen he was worse than a stranger: she knew with certainty that something weird lurked inside him. — Alexandra Kleeman

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category. — Anita Baker

Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of women that have to be the victim and need to be saved, at all times. I don't necessarily think that's how it is, in real life, and I don't think that's how it should be in films. — Mila Kunis

When I work in San Francisco doing stand-up, I usually schedule it for July, and we'll drive up the coast and camp in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and we'll just camp our way up the coast, and then we'll get to San Francisco and hang out there for four days. — Greg Fitzsimmons

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne. — L.M. Montgomery

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person? — Jerry Seinfeld

Even mushrooms respond to light - I suppose they blink their mushroomy little eyes, like the rest of us. — Anne Lamott

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it. — Jeffrey Jones