Hit Em Long And Straight Quotes & Sayings

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. — Thomas Merton

I need you to know I never meant it. I said it because I thought that's what you're supposed to say, but it didn't mean anything. And it's different with you. This is the first time I've been scared. Scared you'll change your mind. Scared I'll screw it up. Aces, Cress, I'm terrified of you." Her stomach fluttered. He didn't look terrified. "Here's the thing." Thorne crawled over her legs and lay down beside her, boots and all. "You deserve better than some thief who's going to end up in jail again. Everyone knows it. Even I know it. But you seem determined to believe I'm actually a decent guy who's halfway worthy of you. So, what scares me most" - he twisted a lock of her hair between his fingers - "is that someday even you will realize that you can do better. — Marissa Meyer

To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe — Bruce Chatwin

He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair. — Arthur C. Clarke

I didn't want to be the kind of guy who had no regrets. Honestly, I wouldn't trust someone who had no regrets. It means that they've never learned from their mistakes, or they're too arrogant to realise they've made them in the first place ... I think having regrets makes us better people ... So ... instead of having no regrets, we should know our regrets ... Wear them like a bade of lessons learned ... If we can't recognise when we've messed up, then how will we know when we've gotten it right? — Priscilla Glenn

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day. — Chuck Klosterman

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. — Dave Matthews

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. — Alain De Botton

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun — Mary Lou Cook

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey. — Elize Du Toit

I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He was just really kind when I met him and nice and really told me why I should play the part ... and kind of really didn't argue with him. He's just really, really smart and assembled these really great people. I felt like he really knows how to enlist his intelligence to get you - I don't know - he's really hard to argue with I find. — Mary-Louise Parker

No matter how tired the body gets, one must never let the exhaustion enter one's thoughts. — Haruki Murakami

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me. — Chuck Liddell

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. — Mark Twain