Goodisman Quotes & Sayings

Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that' — Donald Glover

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel. — Antoinette Tuff

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived. — Lionel Shriver

No need to mince words. And you don't need to force yourself to like me. No one likes me now. It's only to be expected. I don't even like myself much. I used to have a few really good friends. You were one of them. But at a certain stage in life I lost them. Like how Shiro at a certain point lost that special spark. ... But you can't go back. Can't return an item you've already opened. You just have to make do. — Haruki Murakami

Los Angeles can never be convinced to fight fair, but the town has an insidious way of tempting back its most devoted followers. — Jennifer Harrison

Feed yourself spiritual food or the devil will feed on you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth
international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages. — Barney Frank

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. — Ralph W. Sockman

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house. — Britt Ekland

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them. — Richard Steele

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture. — Drew Barrymore

The ear is superior to the eye, as it does not stop functioning with sleep. Since — Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal