Meteoric Iron Quotes & Sayings

I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be. — Letitia Baldrige

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times ... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less ... I guess you could say less aggressive. — Alicia Machado

One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know? — Richard Meltzer

So how do you know when the boy's perfect for you?' Dulcie asked
Betty gave her a tender look. 'You'll just know. That sounds vague, I know, but it's true. — Lesley Pearse

In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs. — William Monahan

And why do you have a pager? Are you a drug dealer? — Jen Mann

It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit. — Louis Sullivan

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. — Cesare Pavese

To achieve these goals [of making good landscapes}, there is but one necessity: when preparing and approving plans for new places, or spending money on old places, we must look beyond the confines of each and every project. Gazing at these wider horizons, we shall see that development projects are initiated by specialists who have been imprisioned within "closely drawn technical limits" and "narrowly drawn territorial boundaries" (Weddle 1967; vii). — Tom Turner

Am I about to feel really, really stupid? — Adam Savage

There's nothing I like more than football ... except for sex. — Romario

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else! — W. Mark Felt

If we're lucky, God blesses us with a few folks who are willing to look beyond the flaws and see the person we try so hard to hide. And if we're blessed, we find someone who'll love us anyway. — Lorna Seilstad

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it's the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with. — Jenny Lawson