Mmhhum Quotes & Sayings

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking. — Leanna Renee Hieber

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. — Ian McEwan

WHEN YOU WORK FOR OTHERS, YOU ARE AT THEIR MERCY. THEY OWN YOUR WORK; THEY OWN YOU. YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT IS SQUASHED. WHAT KEEPS YOU IN SUCH POSITIONS IS A FEAR OF HAVING TO SINK OR SWIM ON YOUR OWN. INSTEAD YOU SHOULD HAVE A GREATER FEAR OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU REMAIN DEPENDENT ON OTHERS FOR POWER. YOUR GOAL IN EVERY MANEUVER IN LIFE MUST BE OWNERSHIP, WORKING THE CORNER FOR YOURSELF. WHEN IT IS YOURS TO LOSE-YOU ARE MORE MOTIVATED, MORE CREATIVE, MORE ALIVE. THE ULTIMATE POWER IN LIFE IS TO BE COMPLETELY SELF-RELIANT, COMPLETELY YOURSELF. — 50 Cent

Sammy dreamed the usual Brooklyn dreams of flight and transformation and escape. He dreamed with fierce contrivance, transmuting himself into a major American novelist, or a famous smart person, like Clifton Fadiman, or perhaps into a heroic doctor; or developing, through practice and sheer force of will, the mental powers that would give him a preternatural control over the hearts and minds of men. — Michael Chabon

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything. — Ted Sizer

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next. — Thomas Ligotti

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement. — Lena Dunham

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong. — Paulo Coelho

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity. — Kathrine Switzer

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy. — Ty Burrell

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends. — Patrick Wilson

I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything. — Gucci Mane

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. — Bashar Al-Assad