Strasove Quotes & Sayings

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled. — Robert Benchley

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. — Carol Burnett

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. — Hans Hofmann

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair. — Thomas Carlyle

I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else. — Jeff VanderMeer

Are you saying you want to be my girlfriend?" His voice was gruff, almost teasing.
I leaned into him and whispered against his lips. "Are you saying you want me to be your girlfriend?"
"Fuck yeah," he whispered back, and pressed his mouth to mine. — Samantha Young

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. — William Hazlitt

But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. — Jim Butcher

The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power. — Ralph Waldo Trine

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. — George Santayana

I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to. — Brandon T. Jackson