Pedanterie Dex Quotes & Sayings

The central question of any execution: do you want the hood on or off? Would you rather see it coming? Or would you rather simply drift away, cocooned in warm darkness, stinking of nothing but yourself? A kind, familiar place to hide in, just before the snap, the crackle? Or the pop? — Gemma Files

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. — Goenawan Mohamad

We all know our duty better than we discharge it. — John Randolph

Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. — Chuck Palahniuk

More humans should acquire the quality of the turtle. He makes more progress only when he sticks his neck out. — Mitch Kynock

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life. — Charles Dickens

In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music. — Zooey Deschanel

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car. — Samantha Barks

Don't make jokes about food. — David Lean

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do. — Johnny Marr