Outrageously Bold Quotes & Sayings

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. — John Hurt

New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie. — Bill Maher

I'm impatient sometimes. — Giancarlo Esposito

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within. — Linda McCartney

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself. — Ira Glass

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. — Karen Russell

He smoked so much marijuana that his hair smelled like a cupboard crammed with oregano; — John Irving

Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't. — Sherry Argov

I realize that I wasn't happy. I was content. There's a world of difference between happy and content. — Anonymous

Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life. — Echo Bodine

If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator. — Adelyn Birch

Beside the china-cupboard and beneath Ratafee stood Emma's harp, a green harp ornamented with gilt scrolls and acanthus leaves in the David manner. When Laura was little she would sometimes steal into the empty drawing-room and pluck the strings which remained unbroken. They answered with a melancholy and distracted voice, and Laura would pleasantly frighten herself with the thought of Emma's ghost coming back to make music with cold fingers, stealing into the empty drawing-room as noiselessly as she had done. But Emma's was a gentle ghost. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! — Edwidge Danticat

I hated morning people, always had. I'd never been able to climb out of bed and welcome the day. I was more of a glare at the world, and snarl until I'd had enough coffee to appear human. — Amelia Hutchins

It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid. — Erwin Chemerinsky