Friedkin Companies Quotes & Sayings

In terms of the outdoors, I and the others like me weren't badly cheated as such cheatings go nowadays, but we were cheated nevertheless. We learned quite a lot, but not enough. Instead of learning to move into country, as I think underneath we wanted, we learned mostly how to move onto it in the old crass Anglo-Saxon way, in search of edible or sometimes just mortal quarry. — John Graves

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows. — Rajneesh

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something. — Oscar De La Hoya

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable. — Sharon Draper

I fancy Miss Price has been more used to deserve praise than to hear it ... — Jane Austen

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ. — Timothy Keller

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it. — Joe Biden

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat. — Lewis Black

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis. — Mo'ne Davis

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. — Rita Dove

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity. — Mason Cooley

We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us. — Howard Dean

As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene. — Stanley Tucci

I learned to smile, avoiding happiness advice. — Brian Spellman