Dreyfous House Quotes & Sayings

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. — John Podhoretz

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh? — William, Saroyan

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. To — Rachel Caine

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess. — Samuel Beckett

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that. — Tibor Fischer

And this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns. — Cesar Vallejo

It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy. — Frederick Lenz

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you. — Gary Shteyngart

Our minds are intricate. Our desires are complex. We are gorgeously contradictory in our epistemologies. We were not invented yesterday. Kathleen — Kathleen Collins

If the theory is confirmed by observation, it will be the successful conclusion of a search going back more than 3,000 years. We will have found the grand design. — Stephen Hawking

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel

I loved rhubarb, that hardy, underappreciated garden survivor that leafed out just as the worst of winter melted away. Not everyone was a fan, especially of the bitter, mushy, overcooked version. Yet sometimes a little bitterness could bring out the best in other flavors. Bitter rhubarb made sunny-day strawberry face the realities of life- and taste all the better for it. As I brushed the cakes with a deep pink glaze made from sweet strawberry and bottled rhubarb bitters, I hoped I would change rhubarb doubters. Certainly, the little Bundt cakes looked as irresistible as anything I had ever seen in a French patisserie. — Judith Fertig

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns. — Cassandra Clare

When I was younger, I didn't know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on. — James Franco

Ballet is the fairies baseball. — Oscar Levant