Dorotka Daniel Quotes & Sayings

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. — Matthew Quick

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that. — Mamie Gummer

But if "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder, so is "obscenity. — Sydney J. Harris

You don't think I'd throw you in there while you're conscious do you? I'd never do something so evil. He drew a heart on my palm with his finger. — Karen Amanda Hooper

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. — Philip G. Zimbardo

A company has a responsibility beyond making a profit for stockholders; it has a responsibility to recognize the dignity of its employees as human beings, to the well-being of its customers, and to the community at large. — David Packard

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating.
This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban. — Jonathan Gottschall

I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Making history was so much better than writing it. — Kate Quinn

What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction? — Tyler Knight

At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is racing up the side of the building!" A second man on the street picks up the narrative: "He's holding on to the iron beams in the building by means of electric rays - using them like a magnet!! Incredible!"

There are three feelings inspired by this scene. The first is wonder as to why people rarely use the phrase "strangely-garbed" anymore. The second is nostalgia for the bygone era when pedestrians would routinely narrate events occurring in front of them, providing exposition for any casual bystander. And the third is pleasure at the realization that Electro's climbing this building is actually a physically plausible use of his powers. — James Kakalios

The main thing is to race over to McDonald's to get an egg McMuffin before they shut down for the morning. — Mike Babcock

You can never know enough about your characters. — Sol Stein