Ignitability Quotes & Sayings

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions. — Marty Rubin

The emanation of what you are is love. — John De Ruiter

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience. — Carolyn Mackler

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine
the impossibility of being human — Charles Bukowski

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true. — Ronald Reagan

He's kissing me and though this is the first time, it feels like recovering a long-forgotten memory. My body seems to say, "Yes, this," and then I'm kissing him back as if I were born to be in his arms. I never realized how tightly guilt and fear had been wound about me until this moment, when they unwind into the air and fly away, leaving me with nothing but this guileless delight. — Rosamund Hodge

With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater. — Callie Khouri

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all. — Eknath Easwaran

It's all part of the process, and it's never ending. However, the key is to remain focused on your vision and embrace the journey. — Todd Henry

We think we value mothers in America, but we don't. We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of woman, after all, and women are trouble and not so valuable. Low-income mothers drag down the country - why'd they have kids if they couldn't support them? Middle-class mothers are boring frumps. Elite ones are obsessed sanctimommies: Don't they know how annoying they are, with their yoga, their catfights over diapers and breastfeeding, their designer strollers that take up half the sidewalk so that people with important places to go have to take several extra steps? — Katha Pollitt

I would love an extension, who wouldn't? If they offer me a $35 million-a-year extension, I'll sign it right now. I won't even read the contract. I'm just here to take care of business and I know can help give the city what it's looking for. — Shaquille O'Neal

She was the sadistic older brother who holds you down and slaps your forehead over and over again, lets a string of spit fall until it almost hits your face and then slurps it up, over and over again. Only this older brother was fucking me. I'm telling mom. — Paul Neilan

We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it. — Zacky Vengeance

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg