"Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”
“What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?”
“It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'”
“It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.”

Source : "Republicans Take Aim at Health Reform Reconciliation Bill". "PBS News Hour", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2010.
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
“This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time”
“My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.”
“Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.”

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