David Harold Blackwell Quotes & Sayings

It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash. — H.L. Mencken

However, because of the great marketing hype surrounding the SSRIs, one of them, Prozac, now has the distinguished honor of having more adverse effects submitted to the FDA than any other drug in history. More than 40,000 adverse reactions were reported in its first ten years on the market. No other drug even comes close (Breggin and Cohen 67). — Gwen Olsen

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all. — Edward Rutherfurd

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity. — Liz Curtis Higgs

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies. — Jennifer Hudson

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. — Arthur Erickson

You know, my world may look like a pile of shit, but at least I sometimes get to sit on top of it — Andy McNab

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. — James Wolcott

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. — Linda Ellerbee

(On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits - a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone. — Nick Bostrom