Ben Yagoda Quotes

Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

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• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
  • Better
  • Horse

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
  • Condition

• The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Time
  • Military
  • Problems

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
  • Getting

• What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

  

  Louise Glück
  • Simple

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Argument
  • Folks

• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Present

• One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • She
  • Night

• What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Hell
  • Farmers
  • Corn

• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

  

  Heraclitus
  • God
  • Peace
  • Summer

• I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Smart
  • Arguments

• Venice is on its knees.. the art, the basilica, the shops and the homes, a disaster.. The city is bracing itself for the next high tide.

  

  Luca Zaia
  • Disaster
  • Venice
  • Bracing

• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Poor
  • Deserve
  • Prosperity

• Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Disaster
  • Quotes
  • Spice