Showing posts with label Gore Vidal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gore Vidal. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Quote (#566)

"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

"I think Superman should go on the Larry King
show and announce that he would come back to
life if people in all 50 states wanted him to."
- Dave Barry

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm a born-again atheist."
- Gore Vidal

"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and
I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling

Monday, October 20, 2008

Quotes

"A recent police study found that you're much
more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."
- Dennis Miller

"Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits
that under analysis some of them won't stand up either."
- Evan Esar

"Today's public figures can no longer write their
own speeches or books, and there is some evidence
that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal

"I hate life, I hate death and everything
in between just doesn't interest me."
- Chris Rapier

"Power corrupts. Absolute
power is kind of neat."
- John Lehman

"I went to a fight the other night,
and a hockey game broke out."
- Rodney Dangerfield