10576 Quotes & Sayings

These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off. — Stephen Richards

Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. — Mark Zandi

This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all those thrumming radiant selves? Here they were, just old enough to have discovered their souls, but not yet dulled by the ordinary act of survival, not yet practiced in dissembling. — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me. — David Gray

Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die. — Junsu

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time. — Cary Fukunaga

There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America. — Renzo Gracie