Laconic Speech Quotes & Sayings

There was no one
nothing else in the world
that had this unbelievable effect on him: thrilling electrification. But just as soon as he acknowledged this gift, he sought to destroy it. — Galt Niederhoffer

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company. — Carl Lewis

If you been feeling or acting crazy, think about it perhaps you are. — Victoria Addino

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects. — Harrison Ford

I think cultural criticism and long-form critique have their place and their purpose. But for a creator, it's so easy for the discussion surrounding a phenomenon to usurp the phenomenon itself. It's worse, of course, with comment sections on websites and blogs, particularly anonymous comments, or the incessant chatter and opinions on social media. Everyone gets to write a headline, and when you or the thing you do is being talked about, you get to feel like a headline - an addicting feeling for sure, but also a pernicious one. The discourse builds its own body, and it's usually a monster. — Carrie Brownstein

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized. — Dick Van Dyke

In the classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes "real" because of a child's love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but demand attention and claim that without it they will not survive. With this aggressive demand for care, the question of biological aliveness almost falls away. We love what we nurture; if a Tamagotchi makes you love it, and you feel it loves you in return, it is alive enough to be a creature. — Sherry Turkle

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do. — Concha Buika

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans. — Barack Obama

It was an age when I'd immediately scan and rank other girls, keeping up a constant tally of how I fell short. — Emma Cline

At a certain age, he thought, it is better for one's health not to do what I am about to do. At a certain age, a man's outlook is best tempered by moderation, if not resignation, if not outright capitulation. At a certain age, one should live without either harking too much back to grievances of the past or inviting resistance in the present by embodying a challenge to the pieties that be. Yet to give up playing any but the role socially assigned, in this instance assigned to the respectably retired - at seventy-one, that is surely what is appropriate, and so, for Coleman Silk, as he long ago demonstrated with requisite ruthlessness to his very own mother, that is what is unacceptable. — Philip Roth

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. — Wilt Chamberlain

I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want. — Mischa Barton

Markets aren't real. They are mathematical models, created by imagining a self-contained world where everyone has exactly the same motivation and the same knowledge and is engaged in the same self-interested calculating exchange. Economists are aware that reality is always more complicated; but they are also aware that to come up with a mathematical model, one always has to make the world into a bit of a cartoon. — David Graeber

They were structured, but let me do almost anything I wanted. I don't mean I was allowed to stay up until three in the morning. I mean that whatever I wanted to do or try, they let me. It was great because it made me feel like they loved me enough to understand I was my own person. It was terrible at the same time because sometimes, after I failed miserably, I wished they would have shown some parental insight and protected me from getting hurt. But ... they were always there to celebrate or pick up the pieces. — AnnaLisa Grant