Chuck Marstein Quotes & Sayings

Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it. — Katie Kacvinsky

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now. — John Edensor Littlewood

People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing's wrong, they just leave them there, and then one day they go and scratch someone's eyes out. — Yuri Herrera

One buzzphrase that arose was 'sustainable development', which was used in two very different senses by opposing groups, because it left vague by what metric sustainability might be measured. Environmental groups meant by 'sustainability' a holistic approach by which life as we know it might be sustained. Scientists talked about 'sustainable cities' to mean cities that would not be destroyed by flooding in the wake of global warming. But to others, 'sustainable' meant a financial approach by which the oil industry as we know it might be sustained: sustainability was the minimum amount of environmental care that was affordable by those whose activities harmed the environment. — Steven Poole

I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%. — Jim Sturgess

Danger is a state of mind." Farzad informs me. "Conquer it, and you ride heaven. — Rachel Cohn

I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return. — Eric Snow

His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams. — Cormac McCarthy

I got my boots out of the closet, put them on, and buckled a belt with a knife on it around my waist under my robe. Baha-char was the place where you went to find things. Sometimes things found you instead and tried to take your money. — Ilona Andrews

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set. — William Holden

He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man. — Katherine Starbird