Kontra News Quotes & Sayings

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it. — Tom Stoppard

She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped. — Nick Hornby

My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.' — Joyce Carol Oates

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does. — John Carpenter

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do — Linda Blair

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair. — Aleister Crowley

I'm, like, really bad at remembering names. — Dasha Zhukova

All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix. — Kyrie Irving

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. — Yvonne Craig

Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight. — Alice Hoffman

Sometimes you just have to play in pain — Gary Carter

I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such. — Erin Moran

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. — Honore De Balzac

Make sure your priorities line up with your values. — Michael Barbarulo