Genres

Art & Architecture

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

57 total reviews
Biography & Autobiography

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

77 total reviews
Classics

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin." — Heinrich Heine

2 total reviews
Comics

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954

23 total reviews
Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

82 total reviews
Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

179 total reviews
Film

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

27 total reviews
Food & Drink

"We all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top." — Hunter S. Thompson

3 total reviews
Gender & Sexuality

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

47 total reviews
Humor

"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty." — Jane Austen

16 total reviews
Law

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

8 total reviews
Literary Fiction

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

99 total reviews
Memoir & Essay

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

101 total reviews
Music

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

40 total reviews
Noir

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

26 total reviews
Nonfiction

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

210 total reviews
Poetry

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

71 total reviews
Politics & Economics

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

69 total reviews
Science & Technology

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

51 total reviews
SF

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

80 total reviews
Sports

"I see great things in baseball." — Walt Whitman

5 total reviews
Television

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Travel

"It is better to travel well than to arrive." — Buddha

27 total reviews