Pedram Mohseni Quotes & Sayings

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. — P. J. O'Rourke

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy. — Jack Nance

Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed. — Archibald Marwizi

Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?

You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point. — Claudia Gray

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale. — Peter Beard

A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability. — Daniel Kahneman

No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare — C.T. Todd

You've got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
"You'd probably kick my butt."
"You know I'd kick your butt. — Rick Riordan

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.
The storyteller didn't exist anymore. — Antonia Michaelis

Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar. — Scott Westerfeld

Even Meredith's attraction to Freddy had paled when compared to the real love of Meredith's life. The steady, unconditional, fortifying love of Meredith's father was gone forever. — Elin Hilderbrand