Leben Lang Quotes & Sayings

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail. — John Carpenter

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. — Elsa Peretti

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet. — Jane Siberry

It is easy to imagine that the great labyrinth, winding round an entire island in the northern ocean, is the reason behind the fleeting, solitary existence of those who live in it, but this does not explain why they built it in the first place. Perhaps they really did want to lose themselves. — A.C. Tillyer

Is there an expiration date on marriages nowadays?
... For some people, yes. — Colleen Hoover

The single yellow diamond stud he wore in his left ear twinkled like a giggle in the morning sunlight. — Malorie Blackman

The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it ... Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation. — Louise J. Kaplan

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.' — John Hodgman

Hiring decisions are too important to be left in the hands of a manager who may or may not have a stake in the employee's success a year later. — Eric Schmidt