Barraged By Quotes & Sayings

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character. — Elijah Wood

Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If — Brene Brown

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. "Do not answer Bryan; attack him!" he counseled in early September, adding, "Don't let him make the issues. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. — Chris Bohjalian

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Part of him knew he shouldn't follow the young man. But another part had begun to stir in his pants. — Marshall Thornton

Times do keep changing - thank God. — Cokie Roberts

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. — Benjamin Franklin

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked. — William Shatner

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself. — Patsy Cline

And in that moment Cristina yearned toward him more than she ever had, for she knew that feeling, to be so hollowed out by loss that you felt as if the wind could blow through you. — Cassandra Clare

You laughed and were happy. I was watching you. I understand the stories your face tells so much better than I did before. I know what your happiness looks like now. — Thea Harrison

When people ask "Do you put real people in your books?" the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead. — Agatha Christie

You and I, we don't walk the lines. We just follow the echoes. — Maggie Stiefvater

Images barraged him. Connections darted electric. Veins. Roots. Forked lightning. Tributaries. Branches. Vines snaked around trees, herds of animals, drops of water running together.

I don't understand.

Fingers twined together. Shoulder leaned on shoulder. Fist bumping fist. Hand dragging Adam up from the dirt.

Cabeswater rifled madly through Adam's own memories and flashed them through his mind. It hurled images of Gansey, Ronan, Noah, and Blue so fast that Adam couldn't keep up with all of them.

Then the grid of lightning blasted across the world, an illuminated grid of energy.

Adam still did not understand, and then he did.

There was more than one Cabeswater. Or more of whatever it was. — Maggie Stiefvater

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests — Laurie E. Rozakis

She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try. — Thea Harrison