Commendatory Assertiveness Quotes & Sayings

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style. — Stanley Kubrick

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not. — Bayode Ojo

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off. — Joel Salatin

We can choose not to remember this day, but bones have strong memories. And earth never forgets. — Magaly Guerrero

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello

Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. — David Brent

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on. — Larry Wilmore

While Eeyore frets ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ... Pooh just is. — Benjamin Hoff

You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news. — Roger Ailes

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain. — Jules Feiffer

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them. — David Walliams

We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe
perhaps correctly
that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation. — Frank Luntz

'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that. — Fantasia Barrino

I consider this the greatest disservice anyone can do to themselves, waking up and thinking 'let's get this day over with.' This is your life, you don't have the room or the time to get anything over with. — Briana Herlihy