#ny

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#funny #funny

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#changed #convinced #feel #i #i feel

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways. ↗

— David Heyman

#day #family #go #grown #last

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#any #books #crime #crimes #does

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#books #either #elsewhere #far #florida

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#alarmed #anymore #beyond #central #disney

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #enjoyed #funny #get #i

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#almighty #always #any #continue #emergency

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#anywhere #calling #career #doing #excited

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#city #during #especially #first #going