Extranote Quotes & Sayings

Against my will, my fate,
A throne unsettled, and an infant state,
Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, And guard with these severities my shores. — Niccolo Machiavelli

When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God. — Yasmin Mogahed

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny. — Peter Farrelly

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too. — A. J. Cook

The mind is free and uncorhursable. — Tony Jefferson

Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness. — Orrin Woodward

When you're reading a good noir, the shocks and twists have a way of feeling deja vu-like, as if you saw them coming, but hoped the characters would take a left turn ... not answer the phone, not sleep with that woman, not sell drugs to those cops ... but knew they would. It would have been wrong if they didn't, and the real surprise can be that you care about someone you know is in for hell. You relate to them, even when their hell is so much bigger than your own. But we're all going to die, and we all make mistakes.
The best noir stories make you forget plot entirely by giving you characters that feel so well-realised you can't look away as they fall. — Ed Brubaker

I always wanted to be a basketball player. — Ronnie James Dio

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you. — Stephen Grosz