Phobes Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love. — Laura Fraser

Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you. — Andrew Bacevich

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating. — Diablo Cody

(W)rite the things you have the most to say about and the things you're afraid of messing up. — Emily Henry

Get off my planet, you son of a bitch. — John Scalzi

I settled in and told Michael, "Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way."
I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches, and "Ride of the Valkyries" started thrumming through the helicopter's cabin.
"Yee-haw," I said as my elbows and knees started a nagging ache. "As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style. — Jim Butcher

And times there are when you feel very wise and ageless. You are sunning on the rocks, the water splashing at your feet, when a small chubby freckle faced girl of about ten approaches you, her hand holding something that is invisible, but evidently quite precious. 'Do you know,' she asks earnestly, 'do starfish like hot or cold water best? — Sylvia Plath

Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush. — Ice Cube

The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story. — Harrison Ford

Television is populated with commitment-phobes. — Rob Lowe

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. — William S. Burroughs

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways. — Mike Birbiglia

The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it. — Greg Gutfeld

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time. — Henry Spencer

You don't lose anythings by being humble. A humble person will win the heart of a King. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature. — Saul Bellow

I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun. — Patrick Henry