Flameout Quotes & Sayings

I slept far more heavily than I had expected or intended, waking when the room was dark.
Surprised that Luke hadn't made a sound, I reached for him and felt a thrill of panic as my hand found nothing but empty space. "Luke!" I scrambled upward, gasping.
"Hey ... " Jack entered the room and turned on the light. "Easy. It's okay, Ella." His voice was soothing and soft. "The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a little more sleep. We've been watching a game."
"Did he cry?" I asked thickly, rubbing my eyes.
"Only when he realized the Astros were having another first-round play-off flameout. But I told him there's no shame in crying over the Astros. It's how we Houston guys bond."
-Ella & Jack — Lisa Kleypas

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence. — Dov Davidoff

... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's for the audience, not for you! And what it means to you is something emotional [...] If you went to the Actors Studio you'd spend six months seeing the snow before you could say, 'Look at the snow.' This takes a terrible burden away from the actor, who thinks he's got to see the woods and the snow. 'Give me my gun! I see a rabbit! Give me my gun!' "

Meisner sounds thrilled at the possibility of a hunt.

"That happens when you're still sitting there reading. Then when they put in the scenery you move to the window. Isn't that simple? How simple it is to solve the problem of seeing things when you know that it's all in you emotionally, and that walking to the window is only a convention. — Sanford Meisner

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. — Amit Abraham

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. — Conrad Black

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire. — Rabih Alameddine

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way ... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself. — Laurie Halse Anderson

We may restrict the expression of worship for a season, just as we may briefly hold our breath, but there is an inward craving for worship that cannot be permanently stilled — Judson Cornwall

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous. — Hugh Of Saint-Victor

We humbly beg your kind applause, murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face. — Thomas Keneally

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead. — Tim Huelskamp

I may not be the best at what I do. But what I do, I do the best that I can. — Tamara Shoemaker

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever. — Neko Case

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it. — Tina Brown

Humph! Promptly spoken. But I won't allow that, seeing that it would never suit my case, as I have made an indifferent, not to say a bad, use of both advantages. Leaving superiority out of the question, then, you must still agree to receive my orders now and then, without being piqued or hurt by the tone of command. Will you? — Charlotte Bronte