Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
CLIFTON FADIMAN There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can...
CLIFTON FADIMAN When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you tha...
CLIFTON FADIMAN The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.
CLIFTON FADIMAN A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
CLIFTON FADIMAN A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remain...
CLIFTON FADIMAN To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
CLIFTON FADIMAN For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
CLIFTON FADIMAN To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The cale...
CLIFTON FADIMAN When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you ...
CLIFTON FADIMAN One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the numbe...
CLIFTON FADIMAN The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
CLIFTON FADIMAN When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you ...
CLIFTON FADIMAN I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
CLIFTON FADIMAN There are many good ideas out there, but we need our own here in Troy. We are working on sponsoring ...
BRYAN CLIFTON This has been going on now for several months. It has been going on for a while.
BRYAN CLIFTON The different dates show how far under water your memorial was that day.
BRYAN CLIFTON We would like the current structure torn down and use some of the old structure as part of the new o...
BRYAN CLIFTON When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is desi...
CLIFTON FADIMAN One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become...
LUCILLE CLIFTON For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed
CLIFTON FADIMAN Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about...
CLIFTON FADIMAN Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
CLIFTON FADIMAN The final outcomes of the Dubai negotiations are extremely disappointing, with the results akin to a...
CLIFTON CURTIS To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The cale...
CLIFTON FADIMAN Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly
CLIFTON FADIMAN Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
CLIFTON FADIMAN the lost women

I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
LUCILLE CLIFTON As between mileage and experience choose experience.
CLIFTON FADIMAN He said the name on the front of the jersey doesn't matter. We proved that today.
CLIFTON LEE All this area all through here is all undermined and it could fall in at any time.
CLIFTON LAWRENCE Tanaka's our only true ball handler and he never came off the floor. They kept throwing different gu...
KRAIG CLIFTON Christmas morning in Russia a cruel snow-laden wind blowing straight out of the pages of Russian his...
CLIFTON DANIEL Unfortunately, due to the efforts of the United States and others, it's been reduced to a minimalist...
CLIFTON CURTIS To feel at home, stay at home.
CLIFTON FADIMAN We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, wh...
CLIFTON FADIMAN A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
CLIFTON DANIEL Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.
MARK CLIFTON We wanted to set up the table on behalf of the orphans and other Indians in need because of their pe...
NIKKI CLIFTON Any time you can go into those big?name colleges, and pull out a win or come close to winning, it bu...
CLIFTON LEE Any time you can go into one of those big-time colleges and pull out the win or come close, it build...
CLIFTON LEE He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
CLIFTON FADIMAN The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
CLIFTON FADIMAN My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more resp...
CLIFTON FADIMAN If you give up a sack, you're exposed. It's out there for everyone to see.
CHAD CLIFTON The mayor rediscovered there were some gifts I had that could be helpful to the city of Philadelphia...
CLIFTON DAVIS It's a tribute. I'm trying to get a little attention, get people talking to me.
CLIFTON LEE The mama of dada
CLIFTON FADIMAN Your future is as bright as the stars the only difference is the stars are going to be in this world...
SHELDON CLIFTON A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
CLIFTON FADIMAN Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.
CLIFTON DAVIS As between mileage and experience choose experience
CLIFTON FADIMAN Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a fir...
CLIFTON FADIMAN Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality
CLIFTON FADIMAN When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU th...
CLIFTON FADIMAN I would say we're in the mid-majors. We spoke with a mid-major analyst who had us ranked in that pol...
CLIFTON LEE Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile f...
CLIFTON FADIMAN It needs to be more ambitious ... it should be a flexible toolbox of actions.
CLIFTON CURTIS I never have, not from Day One. You see hits like that every week in the NFL. When you go on the fie...
CHAD CLIFTON I block down and he (guard Scott Wells) pulls around. He (Harris) just got me off the ball on that p...
CHAD CLIFTON won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
b...
LUCILLE CLIFTON I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.
CLIFTON LEE When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.
CLIFTON HILL He was huge before he ever came to Lubbock, and I think it's no different than when he was in Indian...
CLIFTON WILKINSON We go into every game thinking we can win. This game was no different. We've been down before.
CLIFTON LEE Anytime you could go into those 'big-name' colleges and pull out a win or come close to winning, it ...
CLIFTON LEE We don't back down from anyone. As long as we go out there and execute, pressure the ball and reboun...
CLIFTON LEE I was thinking about it the whole game.
CLIFTON LEE Kerwin said how you bounce back determines your character.
CLIFTON LEE Our guys off the bench give us a spark. Not many other teams have that.
CLIFTON LEE It's scary knowing that something like this could happen to anybody in the neighborhood here. We jus...
CLIFTON LAWRENCE We've had two fall in here on this place here.
CLIFTON LAWRENCE Our farm in England is not nearly as profitable.
CLIFTON LAMPARD We thought there was a hard time ahead for farming and we had to do something different.
CLIFTON LAMPARD It would probably have taken several months if we had to model the block directly, and I am not sure...
CLIFTON KIZIAH His thought process when he signed that deal was that he had a chance to be with the Red Sox for lif...
GREGG CLIFTON Whenever a trade happens, it's always a little shocking from the player's perspective.
GREGG CLIFTON David's a competitor. From David's perspective, not having the opportunity to compete until the midd...
GREGG CLIFTON We really haven't discussed that. David's a professional. He knows he has a job to do.
GREGG CLIFTON We are still in close contact with the Red Sox and they have told us they will do whatever they can ...
GREGG CLIFTON I know David would still like to finish his career on the West Coast, but he has no plans to hold ou...
GREGG CLIFTON I just hope, as does Terry, that the Red Sox don't use this discount to deal him away to another tea...
GREGG CLIFTON Dream and imagine what you want and you will bring it into reality.
LEONARD CLIFTON You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.
LUCILLE CLIFTON People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish t...
LUCILLE CLIFTON i keep hearing / tree talk / water words / and i keep knowing what they mean.
LUCILLE CLIFTON Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
LUCILLE CLIFTON . . . even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my ...
LUCILLE CLIFTON To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of ...
CLIFTON FADIMAN All year, the thing that has kept us in games is our defense. But on Friday night, we broke down on ...
KRAIG CLIFTON They gutted it out and played pretty well.
KRAIG CLIFTON We lost to a very good team. They're tough to beat in their place.
KRAIG CLIFTON It's a challenging time for the kids. We really need a win to keep our heads above water. It's not t...
KRAIG CLIFTON We finally played our best game of the year. Patterson is an excellent team, but our scoring was spr...
KRAIG CLIFTON They can hit you from so many directions and every on the floor can shoot and that makes it hard to ...
KRAIG CLIFTON It's not surprising. You could tell that they were right there last season.
KRAIG CLIFTON They're only doing what they always do in an emergency. It was chaotic but things went well.
KAREN CLIFTON There's talk about oil showing up in the water now so I imagine they're frantic now.
KAREN CLIFTON They have athletes at every position. They're really aggressive and they make things hard.
KRAIG CLIFTON The fourth got us. We had some easy opportunities to score but just didn't convert. (Los Banos) real...
KRAIG CLIFTON At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well h...
DONALD O. CLIFTON I am proud of the enthusiasm and efforts of everyone across Journal Register Company who contributed...
JEAN B. CLIFTON We are confident that Fred will do an excellent job as General Manager of The Phoenix and under his ...
JEAN B. CLIFTON A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th...
DON MARQUIS One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather ...
DON MARQUIS If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. Tha...
DON KARDONG In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ...
DON TAPSCOTT One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
DON SHULA The person who has no enemies has no followers.
DON PIATT Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
DON MARQUIS The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ...
DON MASHAK Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ...
DON MASHAK OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ...
DON MASHAK Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ...
DON EVERLY Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'...
DON MARQUIS It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou...
DON MARQUIS Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
DON PIATT I am just another insect on the windshield of life.
DON MASHAK Speak low if you speak love.
DON PEDRO Get the job done.
DON SHULA Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
DON SHULA I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they...
DON DELILLO A naked woman was amazing.

He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off c...
DON DELILLO Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...
DON DELILLO The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within mem...
DON CAMPBELL In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
DON PIATT Where one door closes, another opens.
DON QUIJOTE Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
DON HEROLD Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
DON HEROLD A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m...
DON MARQUIS There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS