Phasers Up Quotes & Sayings

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me. — Jake Owen

This was beauty too. Was there anything in nature that wasn't? — Kate Atkinson

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.' — Pete Earley

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff. — Owen Wilson

when God is there to look out for you, what's there's to worry about? — Rajat Mishra

After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman. — Key Ballah

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood — Rocky Marciano

Sometimes entire families participate unconsciously in a culture of self-dramatization. The kids fuel the tanks, the grown-ups arm the phasers, the whole starship lurches from one spine-tingling episode to another. And the crew knows how to keep it going. If the level of drama drops below a certain threshold, someone jumps in to amp it up. Dad gets drunk, Mom gets sick, Janie shows up for church with an Oakland Raiders tattoo. It's more fun than a movie. And it works: Nobody gets a damn thing done. Sometimes — Steven Pressfield

Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product. — Walter Isaacson

I knelt to pick up the pages of my journal, my ugly secrets, scattered across the floor. This wasn't the person that Sean married. What did he think of me now?
- WITNESS — Caroline Mitchell

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. — Ernest Hemingway,

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one. — Mark Rippetoe

How boring just to be a body. — Susan Sontag

We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember, — Joseph Conrad

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study ... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved. — Woodrow Wilson

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right. — George Saintsbury