Doins Albuquerque Quotes & Sayings

People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them. — Josh Henderson

The side effects of growing up 'just outside of [insert major urban center here] are many but practically intangible. This is logical given the fact that suburbia itself is a side effect and practically intangible. — Sloane Crosley

The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned. — Jim Rogers

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered. — Colum McCann

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody. — Frederick Lenz

As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister. — Steven Pinker

You are in debt to your life from the day you were born. And the one and the only mode to pay off this debt is to realize the reason for your birth. — Saurabh Dudeja

Chinese migrants had learned from long experience to expect little of governments, and to rely much on the networks of kinship, culture, and trust. — Anthony Reid

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin. — Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men. — Thomas Carlyle

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul. — Pierre De Coubertin

...she certainly was one of the best proofreaders around, and knew her way around there, their, and they're. — Sara Branmore