Pistoned Quotes & Sayings

Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun. — Bernie De Koven

When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing. — Chuck Klosterman

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it. — Henry David Thoreau

In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands. — Diahann Carroll

All the gold in the world was worth around $7 trillion. If Bitcoin became even half as popular, that would put the value of each Bitcoin at around half a million dollars - or — Nathaniel Popper

Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves. — Ann Patchett

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. — Todd Barry

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right? — Sergei Lavrov

pressed. I felt very slobbish next — Darynda Jones

New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me! — Bill Maher