Grown Ups Sulking Quotes & Sayings

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My every dream and hope, and far beyond, were to be realized. I couldn't have wished for a man as incredibly good as this man was. And even so I didn't realize every quality of Bogie's on that day. He was to surprise and delight me continually in the ensuing years — Lauren Bacall

The really destructive feature of their relationship is its inherent quality of boredom. It is quite natural for Peter often to feel bored with Otto - they have scarecely a single interest in common - but Peter, for sentimental reasons, will never admit that this is so. When Otto, who has no such motives for pretending, says, "It's so dull here!" I invariably see Peter wince and looked pained. Yet Otto is actually far less often bored than Peter himself; he finds Peter's company genuinely amusing, and is quite glad to be with him most of the day. Often, when Otto has been chattering rubbish for an hour without stopping, I can see that Peter really longs for him to be quiet and go away. But to admit this would be, in Peter's eyes, a total defeat, so he only laughs and rubs his hands, tacitly appealing to me to support him in his pretense of finding Otto inexhaustibly delightful and funny. — Christopher Isherwood

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not. — J.A. Konrath

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business. — Eliza Coupe

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! — Edmund Spenser

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically ... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future. — Wayne Kramer

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish. — Seneca The Younger

Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But thinking can be rewarding. You can just skip the rough parts, or you can struggle to understand. — Kip S. Thorne

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. — Sophie Swetchine

Todd says that the doctor was rather horrified because we passed a German who had had his head shot off, but his arms and legs were still waving about and strange noises were coming out of him, and i thought even the doctor was a bit turned over by that. — Stephen E. Ambrose

Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for? — Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. — Dean Koontz

True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again. — Terry Lander