Quotes for All
It is Hillary’s [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her. Gail Sheehy
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Television in America is so elaborate. There are so many remote cranes, and they have all the toys to play with. The directors are really good. They really work with you. So, I’m not really on set thinking, \”Oh, my God, this is television. It’s very different.\” Franka Potente
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don’t give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don’t need to, if they don’t need poetry bully … Read more
To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane’s bill. Dogen
Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane. Diablo Cody
This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. Denis Leary
I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn’s stand-in back in the ’30s in Hollywood. David James Elliott
Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be… The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole. David James Duncan
There’s an old saying among scientific guys: You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane. Dave Barry