Plissken Land Quotes & Sayings

In fact, the president was being portrayed as the perfect person in the situation and that damn sure wasn't the case. Hurt — Nako

We are all deceivers to some degree. The difference between safe and unsafe "liars" is that safe people own their lies and see them as a problem to change as they become aware of their deception. — Henry Cloud

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? — Allison Pearson

I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. — George Clooney

I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's not so much even a type of seriousness as it is a circumstance, into which you pass by slow degrees. I've never seen this sufficiently examined. It mutates into a less-unreal reality that still seems different, somehow, than being fully present. Self hate is rarely unconditional. — Darin Strauss

No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red light. — Moe Cidaly

When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be any more. We would just, like, miss it. — Geena Davis

As awareness recedes into the deep, as when it falls asleep, everything seemingly ends. All that it takes is a gentle touch to your body; meaning has moved and meaning is again aware, knowing, seeing, and if it is home, meeting and communing. — John De Ruiter

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing. — Joseph Joubert

My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long. — Armin Zoggeler

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama. — Stephanie Zacharek

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller

All powerful is the rule of fashion. — Publilius Syrus

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp. — Frances Hardinge