"My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about."

-- Steven Wright

#Book Quotes #Hero Quotes #Thrill Quotes

“In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.”

Source : "Interview: Jason Wade from Lifehouse". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. February 1, 2010.
“Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.”

Source : 1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”
“These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...”
“Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.”
“I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.”
“I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!”
“I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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