Nilingap Quotes & Sayings

In high school and college, I was an athlete. — David Duchovny

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world - to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in. — Rachel Ward

There was so much time wasted not spending it together. — Cecelia Ahern

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts. — James Fitzjames Stephen

Freedom comes with a price while bondage takes hold without notice — Mark L. Baynard

I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower. — Emily Blunt

My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a month. — Nikki Reed

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head! — George R R Martin

['Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks. — Simon Conway Morris

There's no magical healing in this. I won't wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I'll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions. — Jasinda Wilder

Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. — Karen Marie Moning