C Span Inauguration 2005 Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally. — Gene Kelly

Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day. — Brad Warner

Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are probably coming from the angle that they don't want to take it so seriously. I've always looked at it as an art but I don't look at it as a pretentious art. I understand it has to be taken lightly because it is just comedy in the end, but the good stand-up comics are someone with something to say. — Mitch Hedberg

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people. — Mabel Cheung

I think that all filth is local ... and that a joke isn't a joke unless it's at somebody's expense — Christopher Hitchens

Coneybeare didn't put his cigarette out. He merely let it slip from between his long fingers, and it fell down the space between the stairs. Barnes watched, dismayed at the distance, as the red ember disappeared in the darkness, and then, like Coneybeare, he did the same, dropping his cigarette and counting one one thousand, two one thousand, as it fell, a disappearing red dot in the darkness below. — Joseph G. Peterson

We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing. — Nhat Hanh

In order to break your child's negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it's hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become. — Daniel Bates

I am not insecure about being a journalist. — Tucker Carlson

I've never regretted doing anything in my life as much as I've regretted not doing it. There were a few times when in my heart I knew the right thing to do, but I listened to other people, or I didn't have the guts, or it didn't make sense, or I don't know. ... There was some false voice inside posing as logic when it was really just my own fear talking. The times I didn't stay true, didn't stay congruent, I paid the price. — Elizabeth Berg

We have each other, and we always will, whatever happens. And if someone does murder me, you needn't worry because I'll come haunt you."
He smirks. "Rattling the windows and tipping glasses and things?"
"I'd say nice things while you slept so you'd have good dreams," I say. "Or maybe mean things if I'm jealous of the other girls you smile at. — Lauren DeStefano