Interferings Quotes & Sayings

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella. — June Foray

Persons of Aunt Ada's temperament were not fond of a tidy life. Storms were what they liked; plenty of rows, and doors being slammed, and jaws sticking out, and faces white with fury, and faces brooding in corners, and faces making unnecessary fuss at breakfast, and plenty of opportunities for gorgeous emotional wallowings, and partings for ever, and misunderstandings, and interferings, and spyings, and, above all, managing and intriguing. Oh, they did enjoy themselves! They were the sort that went trampling all over your pet stamp collection, or whatever it was, and then spent the rest of their lives atoning for it. But you would rather have had your stamp collection. — Stella Gibbons

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin. — Plato

Man dreams that he is more than a leaf on a tree.'
-Leaves by Countee Cullen — Countee Cullen

I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales. — Tom Odell

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity. — Hal Varian

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones

if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path. — Andy Crouch

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' — John Fugelsang

Most of my friends surfed, so we would go before school, after school - literally, whenever we could. — Liam Hemsworth

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus

He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them,' he said. 'I did not say my prayers in words nor did I kneel down but sat perfectly still in my chair. In the late afternoon when it was hot and quiet on Main Street or in the winter when the days were gloomy, the gods came into the office and I thought no one knew about them. Then I found that this woman Elizabeth knew, that she worshipped also the same gods. I have a notion that she came to the office because she thought the gods would be there but she was happy to find herself not alone just the same. It was an experience that cannot be explained, although I suppose it is always happening to men and women in all sorts of places. — Sherwood Anderson

Usually it's like this: I sit down and drink with the idea of clarifying just where I am going with my life, and then, after a while, I am unable even to stand on my feet — Plamen Chetelyazov

Discipline is required in all human endeavours. — Sunday Adelaja

His youngest sister, Linda, wanted to be a singer and she had now refused point-blank to go to secretarial college; his father had refused pointblank to let her study music. Linda had gone to the piano and begun to play Chopin's Prelude No. 24 in D minor, a bitter piece of music which gains in tragic intensity when played 40 times in a row. — Helen DeWitt