Lawrence Weschler Quotes

I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

Lawrence Weschler

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I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

Jess Glynne

LoveCharacterAlwaysPartyingOut

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

John Boehner

TwoTaxesDealIssuesSpending

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Aneurin Bevan

HeartI AmDeepPartyHatredSocial

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Steve Kazee

BestDarknessStartYouSunlightUp

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

Stephen Gardiner

NatureTreesGainCompositionHouses

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church.

Stanley Hauerwas

CrazyDemocracyChurchUnderstanding

If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am.

Simon Cowell

DogI AmWantWayMeanKid

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

Tucker Carlson

GoodEmpathyStupidThinkYouClass

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

Tom Wolfe

MindMeEndEnjoyCreatingFirst

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Roger Ebert

DeathBoredomYouNothingLike

I got fired - November 8, 1979. And all of a sudden, I got a call, two weeks later, about doing a game on ESPN. And I truly said - Scotty Connal, the head of ESPN production at the time, was the guy that called me - I said, 'Man, ESPN sounds like a disease. What is ESPN? I know nothing about it, never heard of it.'

Dick Vitale

TimeManMeGameDoingKnow

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

Chris Riddell

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