Dolorita Baker Quotes & Sayings

The arts are obsessional, and obsession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases - Dylan Thomas comes to mind, and Ross Lockridge and Hart Crane and Sylvia Plath - the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. Art is a localized illness, usually benign - creative people tend to live a long time - sometimes terribly malignant. You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts. And if you are wise you sift the sludge carefully ... because some of that stuff may not be dead. — Stephen King

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro. — Cilla Black

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad. — Elden Henson

With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story. — Marjane Satrapi

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things. — Larry Bird

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. — Lauren Hutton

Please rehearse new material," Brian's telegram said. They chose to interpret this as "please write new material" and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn. — Mark Lewisohn

Modesty forbids what the law does not. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?"
Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
"That's Hercules," I said. "But how-"
"Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season."
"Hercules Busts Heads?"
"Great show." Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box- — Rick Riordan

Isn't it obvious?" She was a freak of nature, a monster like Joey, just less inclined to killing people. "Um, no. I mean, sure you were a tad more ferocious looking than Bambi, what with the red eyes, giant hoofs and your somewhat larger than normal size, but, hey, at least you didn't have an extra tail or something." "But I have antlers!" He — Eve Langlais

A blanket could be used to sell ice cream to streakers. Well, it could, if those naked runners didn't leave their wallets in their pants. — Jarod Kintz

Into each life, a little rain will fall. But everyone must suffer the sun burning down too. — Farahad Zama

Your stupidity is appalling!"
"Most stupidity is! — Charles M. Schulz