Shernoff Bidart Quotes & Sayings

We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers. — Bill Cosby

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. — V.S. Naipaul

Y'know, if anyone happens to know the name of a good literary agent that will actually return phone calls... — Rob Steele

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life. — Margaux Hemingway

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur. — Manolo Blahnik

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you? — Lauren Greenfield

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart. — Lisa Randall

A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. — Tim Allen

I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure ... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating. — Frederick Buechner

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace — Chanakya

I believe your trouble, which is a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of things causes congestion in the body. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I stare into her eyes. The ones I know narrow and glare
when she's pissed at me, the ones that close halfway before rolling up when she's about to come, the ones that widen in surprise or brim with tears when she's touched, and I realize I can't wait to wake up every morning of the rest of my life and learn how else they can look at me. — K. Bromberg