Basch Quotes & Sayings

It is truly one day at a time. — John C. Maxwell

Basch: So why don't you ask her out?
The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.
-So what? What have you got to lose?
-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility. — Samuel Shem

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins. — John Scalzi

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none. — Andrew Carnegie

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation. — Rory Stewart

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. — Janet Evanovich

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein. — Leon Theremin

On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's! — Connor Franta

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology. — Ramez Naam

She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them? — Anne Frank

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves. — Huston Smith

We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do. — L. Todd Rose

Pain is the body's voice. Listen to your body. — Pete Egoscue

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies

I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it
not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others. — Michael Angelakos