Goodspeed Opera Quotes & Sayings

She was drunk so I took her back to my place and we did it doggy style, not because we planned it that way, but that's just how she passed out. — Dave Attell

But the remarkable thing about the beetles was their sensitivity to all the grammar and directives and slogans and even unstated desires of the ant world, which they learned to manipulate. They first memorized the proper antenna-vibration and foreleg-tap which the ants themselves used to request food. The poor workers, busy going here and there and back again all day and never getting a chance to think, automatically assumed that these fearsome strangers had been authorized by the Central Committee since they knew the password, and so they regurgitated a drop or two of fruit juice on cue, much the same as when one is traveling across Europe or Asia on the train and a person in uniform requests one's passport, one's ticket, takes them away, and comes back, or else does not come back, having sold them; a badge and a superior manner can obtain anything in this world. — William T. Vollmann

Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone. — Ray Bradbury

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. — Albert Einstein

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world. — David Ignatius

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it? — Juno Temple

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. — Mary Beth McKenzie

It is always beneficial to praise the Lord; it cheers the day and brightens the night; it lightens toil and softens sorrow; and over earthly gladness it sheds a sanctifying radiance which makes it less liable to blind us with its glare. Have we not something to sing about at this moment? Can we not weave a song out of our present joys, or our past deliverances, or our future hopes? — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and — Virginia Woolf

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love. — Paulo Coelho

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones. — Jeff Anderson

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. — Eric Hoffer