Game List New Quotes & Sayings

I was so scared that all the big things I wanted would never be anything more than wants. — Julie Murphy

You cannot be quiet about things that you know. — Ed Begley Jr.

We have a game we play when we're waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy. — Nora Ephron

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others. — Ashleigh Brilliant

So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, "No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd. — Ernessa T. Carter

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy. — Carly Fiorina

Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging. — Kevin Shields

The look of a king is itself a deed. — Jean Paul

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre. — Michael Eric Dyson

The more you've got, the shorter it feels. — John Perry Barlow

That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. — David Foster Wallace

I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself. — Lapo Elkann

Don't mourn, Organise — Joe Hill

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. — Karen Blixen

High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game. — Willie Geist

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. — Robert Breault