Emos Tristes Quotes & Sayings

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry. — Betty Ford

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.' — Mark Williams

I think you're only as good as the work that you do. — Josh Schwartz

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much. — David Hewson

The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense. — Julius Evola

I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker. — Tao Lin

Any woman would have to be dead not to be attracted to the walking mass of sexy that was Erik MacGregor. — Michelle M. Pillow

Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them. — Bernard Cornwell

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement. — Max Lucado

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away. — Augusten Burroughs

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. — Irving Layton

He wasn't eye candy, he was eye crack, — Anonymous

Oh, don't worry about it, I said, trying to sound normal even though all I really wanted to do was run inside the garage and try to lift my dad's SUV. You know, for scientific purposes. — Rachel Hawkins

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. — Terry Pratchett