Perilous Plunge Quotes & Sayings

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
- Steve Jobs — Wanda Krause

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds. — George McGovern

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay. — Max Beerbohm

None of us really cheer for glory, prizes, tourneys. None of us, maybe, know why we do it at all, except it is like a rampart against the routine and groaning afflictions of the school day. You wear that jacket, like so much armor, game days, the flipping skirts. Who could touch you? Nobody could. My question is this: The New Coach. Did she look at us that first week and see past the glossed hair and shiny legs, our glittered brow bones and girl bravado? See past all that to everything beneath, all our miseries, the way we all hated ourselves but much more everyone else? Could she see past all of that to something else, something quivering and real, something poised to be transformed, turned out, made? See that she could make us, stick her hands in our glitter-gritted insides and build us into magnificent teen gladiators? — Megan Abbott

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. — Theodore Roosevelt

I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of making my fans happy with the music that I write and record and, of course, I want to branch out and I want to have more fans, so I try to get interviews and I try to talk to different outlets and I try to get my music everywhere it can be. — Steve Grand

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for? — Tavis Smiley

Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings and trying to get someone to read something instead of creating a truly great script, because something great has a great chance of getting made, but something average that you've sort of talked people into reading doesn't have as good a shot. — Scot Armstrong