Scribbling Speech Quotes & Sayings

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people. — Adam Driver

Who knows the colors someone else sees? — Anne Perry

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all. — Brian Tracy

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic. — Idries Shah

Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to radical Islam. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University ... It was at this time that the idea of the scientists' petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling and suggesting paragraphs. But it was Linus Pauling himself who contributed the simple prose of the petition that was much superior to any of the suggestions we were making. — Edward Condon

All the problems in this world, he had told me, stem from the precept that we ought not to care about one another just because we are strangers.

Why should we not care about what happens to strangers? Could you imagine the sort of world we might inhabit if we honestly and genuinely wanted to see one another living good, safe lives? Can you even think what it might look like if we all cared about strangers as much as we cared about loved ones, so that the line between the two faded over time, and the precept - the crippling precept - disappeared altogether? — Rose Christo

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity. — Scott Avett

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. — Gregory David Roberts

Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. — Pope Benedict XVI

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. — Karl Rove