Chaytor Midgett Quotes & Sayings

I think what you mostly do when you find you really are alone is to panic. You rush to the opposite extreme and pack yourself into groups - clubs, teams, societies, types. You suddenly start dressing exactly like the others. It's a way of being invisible. The way you sew the patches on the holes in your blue jeans becomes incredibly important. If you do it wrong you're not with it. That's a peculiar phrase, you know? With it. With what? With them. With the others. All together. Safety in numbers. I'm not me. I'm a basketball letter. I'm a popular kid. I'm my friend's friend. I'm a black leather growth on a Honda. I'm a member. I'm a teenager. You can't see me, all you can see is us. We're safe. And if We see You standing alone by yourself, if you're lucky we'll ignore you. If you're not lucky, we might throw rocks. Because we don't like people standing there with the wrong kind of patches on their jeans reminding us that we're each alone and none of us is safe. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is. — Cixin Liu

Application is why we study the Bible. — Elizabeth George

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. — Ron Wyden

The graveyard is an everlasting resting place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

education could develop a human being into an exemplary individual was known as junzi. This process involved persistent development of the self through continuous social contact. He — Adam Brown

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars. — Lynn Coady

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor. — Pierce Brosnan

Change isn't closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new. — Todd Stocker

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is. — Jack Canfield

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. — Thomas Sydenham

Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in. — G. Willow Wilson