Jailon Stokes Quotes & Sayings

The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him. — George Santayana

Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday. — Matthew McConaughey

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about. — Rian Johnson

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life. — John D. Rockefeller

I was an English major in college! — Maggie Siff

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault

How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds. — Terry Pratchett

So I'm thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending. — Matthew Quick

If you need to improve your focus and learn to avoid distractions, take a moment to visualize, with as much detail as possible, what you are about to do. It is easier to know what's ahead when there's a well-rounded script inside your head. Companies say such tactics are important in all kinds of settings, including if you're applying for a job or deciding whom to hire. The candidates who tell stories are the ones every firm wants. "We look for people who describe their experiences as some kind of a narrative," Andy Billings, a vice president at the video game giant Electronic Arts, told me. "It's a tip-off that someone has an instinct for connecting the dots and understanding how the world works at a deeper level. That's who everyone tries to get." III. — Charles Duhigg

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination. — Gore Vidal

Eisenhower accepted and used the power of television. Stevenson felt obliged to critique it. In an article for Fortune magazine published shortly after the campaign, Stevenson worried that television was corrupting the ability of the body politic to think critically. "The extensions of our senses, which we find so fascinating, are not adding to the discriminations of our minds, since we need increasingly to take the reading of a needle on a dial to discover whether we think something is good or bad, right or wrong," he wrote. — Scott Farris