“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.” IfsWantWritingSongFallGirlTroubleEasierRedDressesBarsChairsTonightSay AnythingFifthMartiniFalling Off Author:Stephen Sondheim
“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.” PeopleWantMadeMatterSeemsLeftTroubleGroupsOughtPoliticianSafeNegativeSticksListsInstanceTargetUnfairSay Anything Author:Andy Rooney
“The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.” IfsMeanDifferentTroubleSourceShapesDown AndCopiesSay AnythingReluctantCopying Author:Michael Heizer
“I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.” WantReadingGivenReligiousTroubleMoonWineCriticsSurfacePermissionCommunionCrewSay AnythingApollo Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.” IfsThinkingFirstsTwoBeautifulThreeTroubleDrinkSay AnythingLiberatingHang In There Author:Barry Hannah