Nightstand Decor Quotes & Sayings

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it. — Ralph Ellison

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy. — Helen Clark MacInnes

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind. — Kedar Joshi

The best education in film is to make one — Stanley Kubrick

My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read. — Dav Pilkey

Why do you continue your... charade? Your current position would seem to be a good one for revealing the truth'.
'A few people know, sir. Bobby, Jane, some of the Leatherbacks. For the rest... it just seems easier to keep things as they are.' Winter thought of Novus and his tirade. 'It would be one thing if I had just joined up, but it's been so long. People might be upset that they'd been fooled. And...'
Janus raised an eyebrow. Winter hesitated.
'It's all right for the Girl's Own,' she said. 'They joined up because Vordan needs them, and when the war's over they'll go home. I... I haven't anywhere to go.' She tugged the collar of her uniform. 'This is who I am now, for better or worse. This is my home. After the war, maybe it will be all right for a woman to keep this on, but... maybe not.'
Winter found her throat getting thick. She'd never put it that way before, never even thought it so bluntly. This is my home. — Django Wexler

This is PCE's core fallacy - that a society's mode of expression is productive of its attitudes rather than a product of those attitudes 63 - and of course it's nothing but the obverse of the politically conservative SNOOT's delusion that social change can be retarded by restricting change in standard usage. — David Foster Wallace

Actually my relationships with my girlfriends have become that much deeper and more profound, because I'm like, huh, yeah, I don't have to judge you, or you judge me. It was a lot of - I didn't want to be that crazy girlfriend. — Zoe Bell

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes? — Loretta Lynn

And there are so many missing that the ones that are left don't fit together anymore. — Katja Millay

The next day we ate too much In-N-Out Burger and lay in bed beside each other and I cried ostensibly because I'd miss him when I left, but truly I felt dead inside — Lena Dunham