#bout

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#gingrich #great #gross #hard #him

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#books #endemic #grow #i #i think

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#actor #being #did #fact #fantasies

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#bore #bores #extraordinary #extraordinary thing #him

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#couples #eyes #fat #italian #just

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#any #beliefs #charge #core #democratic

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#asked #been #deal #great #great deal

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#before #called #cover #did #getting

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#deal #degree #great #great deal #how

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do. ↗

— Vin Scully

#averages #batting #get #give #i