Krassner Blocked Quotes & Sayings

Just because something is valuable doesn't mean that we need it. — Elle Luna

Many bills proposing a national energy program that made use of America's vast agricultural resources for fuel production were killed by smear campaigns launched by vested petroleum interests. The oil companies had a monopoly over the automobile industry, and creating a new fuel would be a threat to their power. Due to the threat ethanol fuel posed to major oil companies, production was shut down and the idea of using ethanol as fuel became a thing of the past, another example of how the greed of power and profit has limited our potential. — Joseph P. Kauffman

Why did you choose to save me?"
"I could not let you die." He placed the plate and glass on the kitchen counter.
"But you have let goodness knows how many people die. Why me?"
"You made me ... " He leaned against the counter and looked at her. "You made me ... feel. — Elizabeth Morgan

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world. — Jodie Foster

Pop art is a way of liking things. — Andy Warhol

But who doesn't have a lot of unread books? It's nice, though, to know they are there. — Alexander McCall Smith

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good. — Howard Shore

The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough." — Edwin Hodge

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older. — Sidney Crosby

I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made. — A.E. Housman

I'm astonished by my success. — Danielle Steel

With the use of the hydrogen bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the Good Samaritan. And yet Randy stopped...The incident was important only because it was self-revelatory. Randy knew he would have to play by the old rules. He could not shuck his code, or sneak out of his era. — Pat Frank