Holdout Base Quotes & Sayings

That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's whim of killing Father or Fats or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that being alive is a crock of shit. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better. — Daniel Kahneman

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton

You want your coach's blessing. — Candace Parker

Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing. — Nicholas Sparks

Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color. — Lenny Kravitz

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. — Samuel Johnson

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal. — Noah Baumbach

I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval. — Hjalmar Schacht

What if we opened ourselves to the gift? — Cindy Milstein