Cantabrigian Quotes & Sayings

I can see the greed and envy in your eyes. — Nelly

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters. — Peter Hedges

In the case of a single nineteen year old infantry soldier mangled in the devastating blast of a carefully laid roadside bomb, some fifty or even sixty years of exigent torment - some 500,000 hours of constant, inescapable misery - has been created out of virtually nothing, far exceeding the total output of brutal (albeit dazzling) terror felt by another less fortunate soldier in the seconds before his body is irreparably torn apart by shrapnel and his life is extinguished on a poorly defined battlefield, his account closed forever. — John Zande

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. — Lynda Barry

It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too. — Patty Loveless

The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit. — Jerry Rice

Nothing is more creative ... nor destructive ... than a brilliant mind with a purpose. — Dan Brown

All is as it was," she said softly to the young Q. Turning to Janeway, she added, "Humanity is a stubborn thing, Kathryn Janeway. It hopes, even when all hope is gone. — Kirsten Beyer

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan. — Kerstin Gier

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life. — GG Allin

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. — Terry Pratchett

There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter. — George Watsky

If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.". — Ken Robinson