Completed 1040 Quotes & Sayings

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation. — Adam Driver

She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong. — Sonya Hartnett

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery. — John L'Heureux

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon

I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane. — Robert Scoble

There was a rumor - a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR - that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn't know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead. — Marcus Sakey

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy — Gurcharan Das

One must understand the difference between a fear-ridden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves. I — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable of, his friends praise precisely those things he knows to be weak or meretricious. The writer who cannot write because nothing he writes is good enough, by his own standards, and because no one around him seems to share his standards, is in a special sort of bind:
the love of good fiction that gets him started in the first place makes him scornful of the flawed writing he does (nearly all first-draft writing is flawed) and his sense that nobody cares about truly good fiction robs him of motivation. — John Gardner

I done forgot all abt words
aint got no definitions — Ntozake Shange

It was a great story and I admired her. And I also felt a little envious. Because that bloody tampon had been a secret weapon. And every woman had one. But only a woman like Debby would be brave enough to use it. — Augusten Burroughs

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well. — Beau Bridges