Postgrads Quotes & Sayings

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records. — Jerry Rice

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max. — Bootsy Collins

I miss you, all right." "You should. I'm fucking awesome. — Suzanne Wright

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. — Jean De La Bruyere

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads. — John Grisham

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. — Alan Alda

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. — Teddy Pendergrass

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it. — J.D. Salinger

London and L.A. are both places I feel I can call home. It's a nice balance of Californian calm and that slightly more engaged, electric London vibe that I've always loved. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. — Mooji

Could a flavor be pleased with itself and its position in the world? That was plum. Not the sharp-flavored skin and the sweet flesh of a fresh plum, but more the concentrated flavor when the fruit was cooked down for a tart filling. Like the taste of port. In fact, I liked to pair plum and port together. — Judith Fertig

...Thought lengths it, pulls
an invisible world through
a needle's eye
one detail at a time,

... — Jennifer Grotz

No matter what sorrow or happiness may come to us on account of external and internal conditions, we must not be depressed or joyous about them. They occur through the karma of our previous actions. These sorrows and happinesses will also change and end. So look at it like this: When we have illness, the sorrows of parting from beloved friends, the theft of our possessions, when we are ridiculed by others and they say unpleasant things, we must not get stuck in the sorrow and become depressed, saying: "It isn't right that these things happen to me." These sorts of experiences that are difficult to bear do not occur on account of extenuating conditions in our present life. In previous lifetimes we did the evils that are the cause for it to happen that we experience these kinds of things. Specifically, — Chogyal Phagpa

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for. — George Ogilvie

American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression. — Erik Larson