Esseesse Quotes & Sayings

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family. — Hanna Perlstein Marcus

I seldom took a drink on the set before 9 a.m. — W.C. Fields

(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. — Larry Wall

So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown. — John O'Donohue

Life is to short to be average. — Shayne T. Wright

I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?' — Blake Griffin

You'll shoot the moon ... put out the sun ... when you love someone. — Bryan Adams

My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama. — J.J. Abrams

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting
it lives too much and I dislike its life
I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much! — Lionel Trilling

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do. — Epictetus

The gaming industry is a fairly liberal, hip place, and if you're making games people really don't care what your gender is. At least this has been my experience. — Brenda Romero

Say what you want, but gay guys who've been where you are - there're a loyal breed of animal. — Lawrence Schimel