Todd Solondz Quotes
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Todd Solondz
Quotes to Explore
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
Tao Lin
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
Bai Ling
I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
Carla Hall
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
Natasha Trethewey
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
P. J. O'Rourke
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
H. P. Lovecraft
Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
Khaled Hosseini
I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.
Arthur Miller
In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
Margaret Thatcher
What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
Matthew Pearl
I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.
Carlos Beruff