Blue Meanies Quotes & Sayings

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. — Robert McKee

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts. — Marianne Williamson

Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

B, hows your aim? — Quinn Loftis

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. — Mario Testino

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear. — Harpo Marx

Siri whispered an answer to my unasked question. "No, Merin, one is never really too old. At least not too old to want the warmth and closeness. You decide, my love. I will be content either way." I decided. Towards the dawn we slept. — Dan Simmons

I'm not optimistic. — David A. Siegel

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand. — Brian Froud

You must learn that it is not important for you to ask questions. Nobody needs for you to ask questions. Your job is to follow procedure. Following procedure does not require questions. — Noah Cicero

Thomas Merton, say it, as he so often does: A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite - are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact. — Richard Rohr

Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind. — Susan Cain

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm. — Rick Steves

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. — Lewis Grizzard

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed. — Mitch Kapor