Spiderleg And Daisy Quotes & Sayings

The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person. — Andrew Sean Greer

Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight. — Gary Rohrmayer

THE 100 PERCENT TOTALLY DANGER-PROOF FUTURE IS AMAZING!' we shout. Terry runs into the wall again. I jump back into the shark's mouth. — Andy Griffiths

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people. — Jonathan Tropper

Motherfuckers from Harvard to Harlem respect the Pew Research Center, and hearing this, the concerned patrons turned around in their squeaky plastic seats as best they could, given that donut shop swivel chairs swivel only six degrees in either direction. — Paul Beatty

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts. — Glenn Greenwald

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. — Fanny Crosby

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them. — Jodie Foster

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women. — Barack Obama

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time. — Bob Seger