Choosing Civility Quotes & Sayings

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! — Emile Hirsch

You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs. — Augusten Burroughs

A truculent vet refused the advice and coaxing of doctors, nurses, and physical therapists for weeks; as a result, his back wound broke down, just as we had warned him it would. Called out of the OR, I stitched the dehiscent wound as he yelped in pain, telling myself he'd had it coming.

Nobody has it coming. — Paul Kalanithi

the big things that make a good speaker: knowledge of what he's going to talk about and an intense desire to tell it to other people. — David J. Schwartz

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. — John Stuart Mill

after a man reaches ninety-five and hasn't died yet, the people around him become lulled into believing that he never will. — Hope Jahren

I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life. — Alexandre Desplat

I talk out the lines as I write them. — Tennessee Williams

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer? — Lawrence Block