Cam Jansen Quotes & Sayings

I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane) — Rachel Caine

If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny? — David Benioff

Distraction was a bitch.
A painful, bleeding bitch. — Kit Rocha

Kiss him! Kiss him, you foolish girl!" She heard Amber yelling in her mind. — A.O. Peart

Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think. — Robert Fulghum

Imagine taking a test knowing the answer. While we know that history flows forward, it is difficult to realize that we envision it backward. Why is it so? We will discuss the point in Chapter 11 but here is a possible explanation: Our minds are not quite designed to understand how the world works, but, rather, to get out of trouble rapidly and have progeny. If they were made for us to understand things, then we would have a machine in it that would run the past history as in a VCR, with a correct chronology, and it would slow us down so much that we would have trouble operating. Psychologists call this overestimation of what one knew at the time of the event due to subsequent information the hindsight bias, the "I knew it all along" effect. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well. — Chris Kattan

I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar. — Sandra Bullock

Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!
Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly! — Jasmine Jean

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know. — David McCullough

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. — Shirley Jackson

If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
['Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law?', letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, from Monticello, February 10, 1814] — Thomas Jefferson

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson

cardboard on the tips of his ten fingers, up the crimson-plushed stairway to Guy Francon's office. The cardboard displayed a water-color perspective of a gray granite — Ayn Rand

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on. — George Sewell