2200 Hours Quotes & Sayings

I don't need anyone to validate me. — Will.i.am

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful. — Solomon R. Guggenheim

We take such pains to be polite. We never say what we mean. For all it matters, we could greet each other and speak only of cheese - "How was your Limburger, miss?" "Salty as a ripe Stinking Bishop, thank you." "Ah, very cheddar, miss. I'll have your Stilton brought to your Camembert, then." - and no one would likely notice. — Libba Bray

This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights. — Stephen King

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. — Tony Vlachos

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real. — Charles Duhigg

Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team! — DeWayne Owens

Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terribly sorry I can't come out to see 8 1/2 revived on a wall-size Cambridge Celluloid Festival viewer on Friday, Kimberly, or Daphne, but you see if I jump rope for two hours then jog backwards through Newton till I puke They'll let me watch match-cartridges and then my mother will read aloud to me from the O.E.D. until 2200 lights-out, and c.; so you can be sure that henceforth Daphne/Kimberly/Jennifer will take her adolescent-mating-dance-type-ritual-socialization business somewhere else. — David Foster Wallace

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian

A lot of people think, and Microsoft is happy to let them think, that all great things are invented by Microsoft. In fact, very, very little has been invented by Microsoft. — Alan Cooper

Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. — William Goldman

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. — Hector Hugh Munro

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? — Clara Schumann

There were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers. — Danielle Steel

When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself. — DJ Khaled

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails. — Adrienne Rich