NASA spokesman: Look, I don't want to step on your toes, you don't want to step on mine. We're both writers.- The West Wing
Sam Seaborn: Yes, I suppose, if we broaden the definition to 'those who can spell'.
People impersonate writers all the time. That's why we have to have editors.- Malcolm Gladwell
The feminist messages offered, explicitly and implicitly, stimulate impotent rage against men and society with no realistic alternative to heterosexuality except for celibacy and lesbianism.- Dr. Catherine Hakim, Honey Money: the Power of Erotic Capital
I regret not being abused as a child by poor, nasty parents. Having a wonderful childhood made it much more painful and difficult to become an artist.- Terry Gilliam, The Times
[With thanks to DS Hilton, Esq.]We are looking for the successful individual to have:
Creative
- Good command of the English Language
... you know, is the secret of comedy. That, and not giving away the punchline at the beginning of the joke.- AA Gill, The Sunday Times
If you are (or were) Kevin Pietersen, then by all means slog-sweep Murali inside out with a left-handed grip for six, and if you're not, then just try to get to the pitch of the ball and drop a straight bat on it like a normal man.- Giles Coren, The Times
The position of Oxford poetry professor... comes with a miserable £6,901. [Ruth] Padel would have done better to get a job flipping burgers at McDonald's.- Giles Coren, Anger Management for Beginners
The public disorder debate disorder wasn't a riot so much as a defy-it (for Labour) and a deny-it (for Tories). The Lib-Dems just sat there, wringing their hands and worrying about how to analyse the phenomenon that is social media.
1) Pick up the book closest to you.A dilemma. Page 56 of the book I am currently reading (The Summer Without Men, by Siri Hustvedt) begins with 'Boris wrote back:' followed by a lengthy - and indented - quotation.
2) Turn to page 56.
3) Copy the fifth sentence as your status (without mentioning the book [which raises some context-based questions about the whole point of NBW, surely?] and also appending the above rules).
The magic of authority, money, penises.- Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
Earn Fist Million QuicklyHow nice indeed. Ijts.
futuremillionaire.ijts.org
How nice if some one can earn the first million before the age of 22 starting from the beginning. Read many stories about such youth.
It came from nowhere like the river, and like the river it would not be denied.- William Golding, The Inheritors
It hurts because you love her, no that's gonorreaghFor the record, gonorreagh [sic.] is not a town near Belfast. I checked.
Surely "Pak 'n Save" should be "Pa'k 'n' Save"? Or do they do that so they can pass the savings from the two dropped apostrophes onto we canny consumers?[With thanks to AH, who didn't give his permission for this in any way.]
It would be an anomaly to find a student of nature addicted to the vices that cast so many dark shadows on our social life; nor do I remember among the sad annals of criminal history, one instance of a naturalist who became a criminal, or of a single gardener who has ever been hanged.- Shirley 'a man' Hibberd, Rustic Adornments
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.- William Faulkner
