Wenke Quotes & Sayings

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. — Tallulah Bankhead

Complaining is like sitting in a rocking chair. You can get lots of motion, but you ain't going anywhere," Lacy Dawn said. — Robert Eggleton

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means. — Neo Rauch

Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters. — M.F. Moonzajer

It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick.
-pg.68- — Cassandra Clare

God's decision to flood the entire earth and kill everybody and everything is without a doubt far and away the greatest single act of genocide in the history of the world. It makes you wonder what God thought of the pathetic attempts of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to compete in the genocidal sweepstakes. They may have slaughtered millions, but there were still plenty of people left when they were done. — Joe Wenke

Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps. — Jami Attenberg

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters. — Joe Mantegna

Because here's the thing. We can do a lot in thirty-five days." He sat on the bed and pulled her down next to him. "I mean, think about books and movies. You can watch a great love story in two hours, right? Or read one in maybe two days? So imagine what we can do with thirty-five. We can celebrate a whole year of holidays. We can lock the door at night and turn the music up and memorize each other. We can taste and smell and touch every single thing we love about this whole town, so we never forget, no matter who we turn into out there." He hugged her hands tightly with his. "And then when it's time to leave each other, we'll go off smiling into the future, and we won't be distracted by all that 'when will I find true love' stuff people always worry about because they don't know how it feels. Because we'll already know how it feels. And if neither one of us ever gets another great love story, this one will be enough to last our whole entire lives. — J.C. Lillis

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down. — Scilla Elworthy

All disease starts in the gut. — Hippocrates

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going. — Edmund White