Erik Larson Quotes

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

Erik Larson

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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.

Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
- Movie
- Dad
- Son
There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie.

Zack Snyder
- Music
- Movie
- Hand
The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

O. Winston Link
- Night
- Black
- Color
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Marian Wright Edelman
- Women
- Real
- Role
Barack Obama, you know has a lot of supporters here in America, but he's very popular internationally. It's quite interesting. This is a true story. It was in the paper. Barack Obama is so popular in the African town where his father was born, they've named a beer after him. That's true. Yeah. So next time you're in Africa, sit back, relax, and enjoy a tall, cold Barackelob Light. Good enough. Clearly not as popular a beer as it used to be.

Conan O'Brien
- Time
- Good
- America
Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

E. B. White
- Music
- Mind
- Why