Numenius Americanus Quotes & Sayings

I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody. — Marian Wright Edelman

Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York. — Fritz Leiber

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my way. I'm experienced enough to do that. — David Twohy

Stupid people shouldn't breed. — Jenny Holzer

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals. — Jack McDevitt

Father Alfonso and Father Octavio could make Pepe feel as if he were a betrayer of the Catholic faith - as if he were a raving secular humanist, or worse. (Could there be anyone worse, from a Jesuitical perspective?) Father Alfonso and Father Octavio knew their Catholic dogma by rote; while the two priests talked circles around Brother Pepe, and they made Pepe feel inadequate in his belief, they were irreparably doctrinaire. — John Irving

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals. — Alexandra Adornetto

Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn't decided yet. — Anna Snoekstra

I'm your best buddy, and you don't want me to die from a giant case of blue balls?"
"I don't think that's fatal," Aggie said.
"Have you ever had blue balls?" Eric asked.
She grinned and flipped her gaze to the ceiling. "Well ... "
"They're not just for Smurfs. — Olivia Cunning

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not? — Michelangelo

Let the world go to hell around you so long as you can get to her — Kiera Cass

"Chocolate - The Consuming Passion" was written for the Chocolate Elite - the select millions who like chocolate in all its infinite variety, using 'like' as in 'I like to breathe.' — Sandra Boynton

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days, and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being read much neither. — Anthony Burgess

I have a hell-fire temper. — CeeLo Green