Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Woody Allen

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

Roberto Bolano

Literature + Illness = Illness

William Faulkner

Civilization begins with distillation

Kurt Cobain

Rather be dead than cool.

Libba Bray

The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.

Norman Mailer

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

Ellen Lupton

Typography is what language looks like.

John Green

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Anthony Reinoso

Joe is normally a 135-pounder, and he's filling in at 160. We told him to eat like crazy because we needed a guy for that spot and he did a decent job. He just couldn't quite pull it out.

Bill Ferguson

It can be crazy but a lot of fun. If the restaurant has not planned well or has some staffing woes, it can be treacherous. When it's executed well, it's one of the most fun nights we can have.

Ryan Hendrick

He didn't do anything crazy up until he hit all of our cruisers.

Brian Boye

Guys are crazy not to wear more pink.

Kim Cattrall

He's a guy. They don't talk, they fight. It's all that crazy testosterone.

David Thomas

Going to Jones Stadium, I saw a lot of crazy things there. It was always fun growing up and watching Tech, but I was always a Texas fan.

Gary Peters

He's going up to see the specialist today and if he says he needs an operation, it would be crazy to play him on Saturday unless his mind is right,

Marcos Baghdatis

I think it's getting crazy - all of the people are watching my match.

Julian Scott

We took a lot of crazy shots that game and forced a lot of things that didn't work. Now we know we can't come out sluggish and slow, and we always have to be patient and think about the shots we're taking.

Richelle Mead

If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept looking over his shoulder.” Lee paused thoughtfully. “I think it might have been because Adrian kept laughing like a mad scientist at those old black-and-white movies he was watching.

Rick Riordan

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

Vincente Minnelli

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

William Wells Brown

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin.

Sarah Silverman

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Rebecca Hall

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

Richard Rodriguez

In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

Richard Kerry

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.