Freakerdom Quotes & Sayings

This was, I realized, a beautiful planet. Maybe it was the most beautiful of all. But beauty creates its own troubles. You look at a waterfall or an ocean or a sunset, and you find yourself wanting to share it with someone. — Matt Haig

You have to remain open to the situation that you're filming otherwise you might miss the story. — Joe Berlinger

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. — Gyorgy Ligeti

It was pretty good. Even the music was nice. — Yogi Berra

I keep a large map of the world hanging above my bed. Everybody wants to own land, but I want to own the oceans. — Jarod Kintz

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction. — Donald Johanson

I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence. — Andre Agassi

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon]
I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym — Jandy Nelson

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I'm arrogant, but not so much that I'd irresponsibly save someone just to brag about it — Yana Toboso

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how. — Bobby Darin

The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it. — Teju Cole

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television. — Vince Gilligan

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized. — Najib Razak

I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too ... I got a song about that ... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it. — James Brown