Linchpins Of Dead Quotes & Sayings

I've never done a period piece or a comedy, and that could be something truly different for me. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

That's what I don't like about college, by the way. It's like a lot of people don't believe these years really count, so you're allowed to experiment with ... whatever. There's such a casual view about things like sex and drinking and even drugs. I know that sounds really old-fashioned, but I just don't get it ... to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed in those two people I heard about, and I don't want to sit there trying to pretend that I'm not. I know I shouldn't judge, ... but still, what was the point? Shouldn't you save things like that for someone you love? So that it really means something? - Savannah — Nicholas Sparks

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road. — Aziz Ansari

When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough. — Jason Wu

Do good with what you have, fight hard for what you don't. — Erik Iversen

The culture of shame is driven by fear, blame and disconnection, and it is often a powerful incubator for issues like perfectionism, stereotyping, gossiping and addiction. — Brene Brown

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him. — John W. Gardner

I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want. — Marsha Blackburn

Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie. — Kris Carr

I don't think it's things that used to be that haunt us, but things that could have been. — Matthew Baker

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. — Henry David Thoreau

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was. — G.K. Chesterton