Prescripted Quotes & Sayings

Japanese chase-away juice." And — Amy Tan

When you align individually high-performing people around the idea that they are collectively underdogs, you tap into the cohesive gel that brings early adopters together. We created an enemy for us to rebel against (this belief that our approach was "impossible"), which is one of the fastest ways to unite people around a common goal. And with each new person who joined our volunteer army, we received both the validation and the skills necessary to prove that we could carve a different path from those who came before us. — Adam Braun

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime. — Geoffrey O'Brien

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard. — Kelly Ripa

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity. — Patrick Rothfuss

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life. — Maria Montessori

King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. — George R R Martin

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway — Takashi Miike

Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing - a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming. — Terence McKenna

Everyone else is just cocktails. — Charlotte Bronte

People say God only gives us as much as we can handle. I say, his holiness thought spiders were a good idea. Point me toward a different authority. — Julie Johnson

The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all. — J. Robbins

every person who has ever flown on a plane has traveled in time. — A.G. Riddle

She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime. — Ian McEwan

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow