Kippered Herring Quotes & Sayings

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas. — Will.i.am

the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience. — Cate Blanchett

If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first. — Philip Larkin

Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle? — Sergio Chejfec

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish. — Eliza Green

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. — Oksana Baiul

A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning. — Jon Ronson

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. — Vernor Vinge

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans. — Robbie Coltrane

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world. — Camille Paglia

I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. — Suzanne Collins