Mr Ibu Quotes & Sayings

It's always hard to analyze what your own style is. — Julie Davis

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us. — Elizabeth Warren

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney. — Alex O'Loughlin

I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. "Accident," I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my will I know in advance I can't win. Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving towards it. I look down, down, into bottomless blackness, feeling the dark power moving in me like an ocean current, some monster inside me, deep sea wonder, dread night monarch astir in his cave, moving me slowly to my voluntary tumble into death. — John Gardner

We do not choose our fate, we can only choose if we accept it. Fate will take us where it will, whether we will it or not. (Sister Mira) — Brenda Cothern

I could tell the raciest things these women had ever been involved in was a co-ed game of Connect Four. — Chelsea Handler

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory. — Annie Dillard

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. — Stirling Moss

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly. — Jami Gertz

I loved you when I was eight. I loved you when I was twelve. I loved you when I was twenty, and I... I love you now. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

My fake weekend has begun. I always take Tuesday off, unless my rent is due and I need to pick up some extra cash. I always take Thursday off, too. I have two fake weekends and one real weekend per week. Sometimes I wish there were eight days in a week just so I could squeeze in an extra weekend. But we all have our crosses to bear. — Gary Reilly

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war. — Peter Schuyler

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were. — Terence Stamp

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast?
Example:
What was the full impact of World War II?
Clear-cut teenage answer: we won. — Joan Bauer

The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you're already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you're anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal's office: "So what's this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?" You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up. — Lorrie Moore

He found some ibu, as he liked to call it, and went to the kitchen for water to wash the relief-giving tabs down. — John Shanahan