Marines Motivational Quotes & Sayings

They chose "beer as soda pop." Craft brewers are "beer as wine. — Michael Jackson

A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working? — Eddi Reader

It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable. — Ry Russo-Young

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? — Stewart O'Nan

You must be a light unto yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time. — Joshua Bell

To continue in one path is to go backward. — Igor Stravinsky

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. — Norman Mailer

Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash, you don't understand; you throw a fat piece up there, that piece is yours.' I'm like, 'No one thinks you own Costco.' — Natasha Leggero

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be. — Mark W. Boyer

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by ... hair. — Alex Turner

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us. — Nhat Hanh