Choosy Kids Quotes & Sayings

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else. — Steve Albini

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage
"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury — J.R. Ward

I was fed up with being just plain Jane. — Jayne Meadows

Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven. — Cormac McCarthy

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful. — Kajol

He thought, in your most secret dreams you cut a niche for yourself, and it is finished early, and then you wait for someone to come along to fill it - but to fill it exactly, every cut, curve, hollow and plane of it. And people do come along, and one covers up the niche, and another rattles around inside it, and another is so surrounded by fog that for the longest time you don't know if she fits or not; but each of them hits you with a tremendous impact. And then one comes along and slips in so quietly that you don't know when it happened, and fits so well you almost can't feel anything at all. And that is it.
"What are you thinking about?" she asked him.
He told her, immediately and fully. She nodded as if he had been talking about cats or cathedrals or cam-shafts, or anything else beautiful and complex. She said, "That's right. It isn't all there, of course. It isn't even enough. But everything else isn't enough without it."
"What is 'everything else'? — Theodore Sturgeon

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me. — Carrie Jones

The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness. — Maira Kalman

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace. — Al D'Amato

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. — Horace

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have. — John Ortberg

I suffer," said Hercule Poirot to himself in acute self-pity. "Yes, I suffer. — Agatha Christie

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. — James Anthony Froude

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. — Daphne Du Maurier