Extemporaneously Def Quotes & Sayings

It's a leadership function. They taught me that at Quantico. The troops have to see you doing the job. They have to know you're there for them. And I have to be sure that it's all real, that I actually am the President. — Tom Clancy

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation. — Jon Ronson

How do we know Stephanie's not just watering a friend's plants?"
"Oh, she's watering his plants all right," said Keane.
"Congratulations," I said. "That's the worst euphemism for intercourse I've ever heard."
"No," said Keane. "Intercourse is the worst euphemism for intercourse you've ever heard. Normal people call it fucking. — Robert Kroese

Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that's disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world. — Paul Russell

My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved. — Jaron Lanier

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. — Pauline Kael

I studied literature design and fashion design. — Danielle Steel

I didn't want the attacks to affect me. I don't believe you should be led by fear. — Robert Redford

When I went to the all-Ireland final - Kerry against Dublin - I couldn't get away for an hour and a half with people coming up and wishing me all the best. Not one of them said, 'Martin, when did you leave the IRA?' But every one of them knew I was in the IRA at one stage. — Martin McGuinness

We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive! — Mark Hall

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. — Shaun White

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind. — Richard Rohr

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? — Mahatma Gandhi

Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time. — Satoshi Kanazawa

For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and was leading me off in some strange direction to another world — Haruki Murakami