Wnyc Quotes & Sayings

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes ... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. — Sean Combs

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got. — Anthony Kiedis

Rose, you're wise in so many ways ... and so young in others. — Richelle Mead

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart. — Pope Benedict XVI

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth. — Roy Blunt

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around. — Al Pacino

Kurt Vonnegut to Shakespeare:
I asked him if he had love affairs with men as well as women, knowing how eager my WNYC audience was to have this matter settled. His answer, however, celebrated affection between animals of any sort:
"We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk in the sun, and bleat the one at the other: what we chang'd was innocence for innocence." By changed he meant exchanged: "What we exchanged was innocence for innocence." That has to be the softest core pornography I ever heard. — Kurt Vonnegut

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important. — Tim O'Brien

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. — Octavio Paz

Books come from within. — Kevin Henkes

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. — Anthony Kiedis

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers." — Fred Ritchin

The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body. — Franz Bardon

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't. — Laurell K. Hamilton