Typhoidic Quotes & Sayings

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own. — David Frost

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors. — Patton Oswalt

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. — David Foster Wallace

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer — Bill Hicks

It is our own flaws that we are least ready to forgive in others. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Vegetables cooked for salads should always be on the crisp side, like those trays of zucchini and slender green beans and cauliflowerets in every trattoria in Venice, in the days when the Italians could eat correctly. You used to choose the things you wanted: there were tiny potatoes in their skins, remember, and artichokes boiled in olive oil, as big as your thumb, and much tenderer ... and then the waiter would throw them all into an ugly white bowl and splash a little oil and vinegar over them, and you would have a salad as fresh and tonic to your several senses as La Primavera. It can still be done, although never in the same typhoidic and enraptured air. You can still find little fresh vegetables, and still know how to cook them until they are not quite done, and chill them, and eat them in a bowl. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greatest gift you can give a girlfriend. — Seth Meyers

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles. — David Foster Wallace

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. — Ken Livingstone

I don't think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate. — Elizabeth Scott

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad. — Michael Moorcock

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along. — Erica Jong

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Changing the form of one's mission's almost as difficult as changing the shape of one's nose: there they are, each, in the middle of one's face and one's character
one has to begin too far back. — Henry James

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon. — Anita Brookner