Roderick Usher Character Quotes & Sayings

Scientists who study human motivation have lately learned that after basic survival needs have been met, the combination of autonomy (the desire to direct your own life), mastery (the desire to learn, explore, and be creative), and purpose (the desire to matter, to contribute to the world) are our most powerful intrinsic drivers - the three things that motivate us most. All three are deeply woven through the fabric of flow. Thus toying with flow involves tinkering with primal biology: addictive neurochemistry, potent psychology, and hardwired evolutionary behaviors. — Steven Kotler

And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki. — Nicki Minaj

I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves. — Rebecca Johns

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing. — Annette Bening

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now. — George Leonard

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. — Annie Lennox

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. — James Lee Burke

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. — Murray Gell-Mann

All systems of morality are fine. The Gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few commonplace sentences put in bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor. — Riff Raff

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on. — Arthur Baer

We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country ... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. — Theodor Herzl

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi