Schwandt Diamond Quotes & Sayings

We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past? — Anne Rice

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive. — James C. Collins

I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school." — Betty White

It is important to stress that, in America at least, no matter how small and how badly off a particular stigmatized category is, the viewpoint of its members is likely to be given public presentation of some kind. It can thus be said that Americans who are stigmatized tend to live in a literarily-defined world, however uncultured they might be. If they don't read books on the situation of persons like themselves, they at least read magazines and see movies; and where they don't do these, then they listen to local, vocal associates. An intellectually worked-up version of their point of view is thus available to most stigmatized persons. A comment is here required about those who come to serve as representatives of a stigmatized category. Starting out as someone who is a little more vocal, a little better known, or a little better connected than his fellow-sufferers, a stigmatized person may find that the "movement" has absorbed his whole day, and that he has become a professional. — Erving Goffman

I was able to overcome this because of the fans who waited for me. I promise not to disappoint you anymore. — Jay Park

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. — Charles Finch

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder. — Darrell Hammond

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie. — Evan Daugherty