- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45947/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45947/ <![CDATA[Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38176/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38176/ <![CDATA[Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35013/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35013/ <![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35889/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35889/ <![CDATA[Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34809/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34809/ <![CDATA[The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34589/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34589/ <![CDATA[Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34522/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34522/ <![CDATA[Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34167/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34167/ <![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35004/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35004/ <![CDATA[The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34830/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34830/ <![CDATA[I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38672/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/38672/ <![CDATA[Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40242/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40242/ <![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40516/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40516/ <![CDATA[Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36091/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36091/ <![CDATA[Youth has become a class.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43021/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43021/ <![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42930/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42930/ <![CDATA[Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42672/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42672/ <![CDATA[Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42646/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42646/ <![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42585/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42585/ <![CDATA[The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41782/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41782/ <![CDATA[Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40611/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40611/ <![CDATA[In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40596/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40596/ <![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40519/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40519/ <![CDATA[The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28887/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28887/ <![CDATA[Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28873/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28873/ <![CDATA[If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28508/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28508/ <![CDATA[My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28478/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28478/ <![CDATA[Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28371/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28371/ <![CDATA[I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28364/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28364/ <![CDATA[I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28284/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28284/ <![CDATA[People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28278/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28278/ <![CDATA[Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28252/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28252/ <![CDATA[Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30089/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30089/ <![CDATA[People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30086/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/30086/ <![CDATA[There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32996/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32996/ <![CDATA[I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32618/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32618/ <![CDATA[Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32448/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32448/ <![CDATA[Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32444/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32444/ <![CDATA[The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31242/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31242/ <![CDATA[There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection? If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31230/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31230/