629 New Cases Quotes & Sayings

I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn. — Gary Calamar

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.' — Matt Cohen

Parents embraced "Sesame Street" for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children's access to television. "Sesame Street" appeared to justify allowing a four- or five-year-old to sit transfixed in front of a television screen for unnatural periods of time. Parents were eager to hope that television could teach their children something other than which breakfast cereal has the most crackle. At the same time, "Sesame Street" relieved them of the responsibility of teaching their pre-school children how to read - no small matter in a culture where children are apt to be considered a nuisance ... We now know that "Sesame Street" encourages children to love school only if school is like "Sesame Street." Which is to say, we now know that "Sesame Street" undermines what the traditional idea of schooling represents. — Neil Postman

While Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness. — Michelle Hodkin

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is . — Bear Grylls

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for. — Martin Gore

A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments ... It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. — Ambrose Bierce

Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions. — Amit Ray

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. — Juan Cole

Let's be honest: I just want a Super Bowl ring. — Kate Mara

We cannot trade empty for empty
We must go to the waterfall
For there's a break in the cup that holds love ...
Inside us all. — David Wilcox

Lies and the truth both have one thing in common, Shawn," Remy said in a low, steady voice. "They both have their consequences. — Abigail Roux

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly. — Peter S. Beagle

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall. — Alan Lightman