As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Gore Vidal
Recitation: by Male by Female
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
ComediansImitations
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
Robert McNamara
AchieveProtectNuclear WeaponsWould
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
John Hersey
MomentSicknessBodyNewReaction
To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.
Steven Moffat
MeEvilBrandSounds
I like to drink to suit my location.
Tom Jones
DrinkLocationSuitLike
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.
Chuck Palahniuk
MeGenerationKindSarcasticBecause
I just want to see what life's going to throw my way. So far, it's been very unexpected. I'm kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.
Anya Taylor-Joy
LifeEnjoyUnexpectedRoller Coaster
I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.
Arabella Weir
HusbandUnderstandAskJust
Music was something I was encouraged to do, which I appeared to be quite good at, but it was never a passion. Writing was always my first love.
Allan Guthrie
LoveGoodMusicPassionWriting
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Allen Tate
LifeFailureInterestingPerfectUp
Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
Philip Kerr
SportsPartyMoreEveryoneTurnOut
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
Pearl Cleage
LoveRomanticWritingComedyYou
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