Etwahl Quotes & Sayings

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy! — Rick Riordan

IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE
AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF,
DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE
TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS.
THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS,
LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR
ADVANCED WARNING. — Jenny Holzer

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change. — Cullen Murphy

But you, like me, have good eyes. You looked too far into life. You saw that it was futile to reach wrong goals and futile to set new wrong goals. Multiplications of zero are always zero!" Breuer — Irvin D. Yalom

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services. — Cliff Martinez

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. — Jose Saramago

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. — Sydney J. Harris

Falling drops will at last wear away stone. — Lucretius

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks. — Seth Rogen

I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness). — Paul Theroux

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do. — Joss Whedon

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers. — Reba McEntire

Let's not live like we're scared. It's such a waste to be scared. — Leanne Hall

It always seemed like there was too much in real life I was supposed to be afraid of: drunk drivers, rapists, unwanted pregnancy, HPV, undercooked chicken, toxic shock syndrome, and a bad reputation. — Leila Howland