Fistedly Quotes & Sayings

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. — Norah Jones

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they. — Saint Augustine

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. — Matt Dillon

Life was a perpetual black fuck about a fixed pole of insomnia. — Henry Miller

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts. — David Tepper

No less a question than this: Whether he should allow himself to fall in love with Pet? He was twice her age. (He changed the leg he had crossed over the other, and tried the calculation again, but could not bring out the total at less.) He was twice her age. Well! He was young in appearance, young in health and strength, young in heart. — Charles Dickens

I have had the opportunity to work with Andy Lincoln a lot. He's got a remarkable process. He just has these ways of sinking into the scene and into character that are very physical. He'll make these sounds and these grunts and these moans ... I don't know what it is that he's channeling! It lets you know it's okay for you to do that, too. — Andrew J. West

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church. — John Stott

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia. — Steve Irwin

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim. — Carson Kressley

I didn't buy the piano to play it, I bought it because it looks nice. — Scott Disick

They'll have to try like hell to catch me this time. They will try like hell. And even if they don't find you, what kind of way is that to live? You'll always be alone, no one will ever be on your side, and you'll always live in danger of betrayal. I live that way now. But you can't just turn your back on all your responsibilities and run away from them, Major Danby insisted. It's such a negative mood. It's escapist. Yossarian laughed with buoyant scorn and shook his head. I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.
Hetson: As I said in class, a lot of critics find that moment too sentimental. An author ham-fistedly reaching in and injecting an amoral tale with a moral. An embarrassing betrayal of all the dark comedy that came before it. But me? I've always kind of liked it. It has such a nice, hopeful ring to it. Do you see my point? — Kevin Williamson