Recoded Opening Quotes & Sayings

I was shown, not told, the workingman's belief in hard labor, — Jack Coughlin

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for ... what was it called? ... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing. — Logan Lerman

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to. — Liz Goldwyn

That which we call death, is but the other side of life. — William Walker Atkinson

Any-way, I guess my point, babe, is that it doesn't matter all that much about your first time. There's no point regretting what you can't change. — R.J. Lewis

And he sank into reverie, which lasted a long time. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. — Lou Reed

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. — Anton Chekhov

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either. — Greg Proops

When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue. — Kelly Corrigan

White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. And this assumption - which, for example, makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept and adopt white standards - is revealed in all kinds of striking ways, from Bobby Kennedy's assurance that a Negro can become President in forty years to the unfortunate tone of warm congratulation with which so many liberals address their Negro equals. — James Baldwin

Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same ... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things. — Susan Jeffers

Sometimes you got to put somebody in their place, let them know that you mean business and you're a grown ass man. — J. B. Smoove

Life is an opportunity to secure your future in eternity. — Sunday Adelaja