Whadja Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience. — Gina Carano

Learning how to play an instrument has always been near the top of my to-do list, but what are the chances now? There's little downtime with a column and a two-year-old, and after reading Goldilocks and the three Bears and going through half a bottle of wine with dinner on an average evening, imagining a day when I join Nathaniel on the Elgar Cello Concerto is not a vision but a hallucination. I'm at the point where the things on your to-do list get transferred to a should-have-done list, and one reason I write a column is for the privilege of vicariously sampling other worlds, dropping in with my passport, my notebook and my curiosity. — Steve Lopez

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much. — John Updike

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever," I said, "I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want. — Ernest Hemingway,

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? — John Keats

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. — John Henry Holland

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence. — Michael S. Harper

Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!! — Aya Nakahara

Her heart was made of liquid sunsets. — Virginia Woolf

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. — Adrian Edmondson

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled. — Kai Bird

Life without the courage to die is slavery. — Seneca The Younger

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year! — Eartha Kitt