Venutis Banquets Quotes & Sayings

I have wife who understands, or even if she doesn't she at least pretends. — Malcolm X

The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short. — Aldous Huxley

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale. — Sara Gilbert

Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for their eyes are the eyes of dogs that have done wrong and know it, and are afraid. — Richard Llewellyn

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own. — Meg Cabot

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. — Nicolas Chamfort

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Benjamin Franklin

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that. — Andy Rooney

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love engaging with the fans. It's fun. — Charles Halford

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. — Thomas Paine

Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works. — Eric Bentley