Leaving California Satire Quotes & Sayings

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles. — Terry Orlick

You're just scared. You're afraid of what you're unfamiliar with. You're too worried about disappointing people. You stifle your own potential because of what you think others expect of you- because you still follow the rules you've been given. — Tahereh Mafi

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads. — Mahatma Gandhi

A tactical orgasm. That's what he needed. Then he'd stop fantasizing about all those lacy bras she'd left back in his bathroom. She really needed to dry those someplace else. It had taken him fifteen minutes to take a leak this morning because the damn things were hanging up right where he - and his dick - could see them. It twitched in his slacks. His dick had a great memory. — Tracy Brogan

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you. — Gertrude Stein

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. — Jalaluddin Rumi

(The only birdcall I know is the Road Runner's BEEP BEEP.) — David Levithan

But reality had other ideas. — T. Torrest

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it — Karl Popper

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level. — Julian Casablancas

PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita