Newscasters Bloopers Quotes & Sayings

Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings. — George R R Martin

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it. — Mencius

You have to have a strong sense of humor to date me, and also know that you're probably going to be a part of the routine quite a bit. — Dane Cook

Someday, she thought, somebody's going to wake up to this every morning. — Rainbow Rowell

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we're educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don't educate them, what we call "education," they're going to take control - "they" being what Alexander Hamilton called the "great beast," namely the people. — Noam Chomsky

Cleaving to our own lives, with all their challenges and limitations and particularities, is vital. — Andrew Solomon

Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the players degenerative brain disease. — George Will

When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.' — Rutina Wesley

For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face. — H.P. Lovecraft

It is the job of light to speak out against darkness. Become part of that light when you see wrongs against humanity by speaking out against them. Help light our world for the future generations to come. — Timothy Pina

Nobody steals books but your friends. — Roger Zelazny

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business. — William Faulkner