Goonies Most Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in. — Gloria Steinem

I want to... have fun with writing again. Enjoy my work, enjoy playing with the language and characters like a sculptor plays with clay. But there's this manic focus on numbers--how many books have you written and how many have you sold and it's all push, push, push, and no time for reflection--but at heart, books are about dreaming... which is just the opposite. So I don't know...
M.M. Bennetts comment to Nancy Bilyeau as related in Nancy's tribute "M.M. Bennetts: The Closest Friend I Never Met — M.M. Bennetts

It is an archive ... You probably get rooms like this in even the most modern of offices, like a rusty anchor chained to the past and with no purpose in life. — Jose Saramago

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. — Nigella Lawson

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will. — Richard Perle

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. — Glen Hansard

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. — Mark Haddon

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new? — Steven Wright

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. — Stendhal

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. — Chris Wedge

Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur. — Jack The Ripper

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them. — Ivan Illich

There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun. — Brie Larson