Baggage Claim Cedric Quotes & Sayings

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own. — Debbie Blue

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked. — Robert Conrad

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude. — Jim Rohn

I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You would have been better off if you admitted to yourself that she was the love of your life. It might have saved us some pain. — Adria J. Cimino

People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart
but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought. — Adelle Waldman

After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant earrings, and even young girls were attempting to change from frank, open-eyed ingenues to the almond-eyed, carmine-lipped woman of subtlety and mystery. — Mary Pickford

Love is one heavy words — Orizuka

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics. — Thomas Jefferson

She has already been sentenced to death, like every Mortal. — Kami Garcia

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise. — Antonya Nelson

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really. — Amy Winehouse

People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices ... — Rick Rubin