Interspersed Requests Quotes & Sayings

I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar. — Caroll Spinney

I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me. — Naomi Novik

In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end. — Marilyn French

It's too easy to forget oneself, to take comfort in becoming part of the great amorphous mass of the thoughtless, the spineless, the soulless, as I would say. To go along with the wrong instead of standing up for what's right. To become nothing because so many are nothing and being nothing takes less effort than becoming something worthwhile. — Lynmar Brock Jr.

His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out.
"Posture's wrong," Kat said.
"He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world.
"I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them. — Ally Carter

The real woman does not want to be equal but different. — Federico Mangahas

America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations. — Robert Reich

The feeling of being hurt, is the proof that you are in love. — Ahmed Ayub