Justoneminute Quotes & Sayings

my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to. — Tim Dorsey

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level — Brian Greene

The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice ... The arts' belief in potential gives each of us
both audience and creator
pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals. — Wendy Wasserstein

Fear to face what scares us is often more dangerous than the thing we fear itself. — Sophie Glynn

My high school career was undistinguished except for math and science. However, having barely been admitted to Rice University, I found that I enjoyed the courses and the elation of success and graduated with honors in physics. I did a senior thesis with C.F. Squire, building a regulator for a magnet for use in low-temperature physics. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

My body melts into his hard one until his strong arm, coiled around my small waist, is all that hols me upright. I don't know if I'm bad for him, or him for me. All I know is that this is as inevitable as an incoming tsunami, and I'm just bracing for the swim of my life. — Katy Evans

And the most extraordinary thing is that, in the end, as you grow older, you continue to go poop once a day if you are in good health, while it is not easy to make love every day. So finally, the pleasure is longer-lasting and more frequent than the other. — Guy Fournier

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office. — Edmund White

Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world. — Lesslie Newbigin

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies. — Neil Diamond

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good. — Andrew O'Hagan

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. — Flannery O'Connor