"A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject."

-- James Wolcott

#Kings Quotes #Purple Quotes #Typical Quotes

“I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.”
“That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.”

Source : Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”

Source : "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.
“God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.”
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
“I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
“Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys." We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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