Scrubbed Mission Quotes & Sayings

Maybe that was the sign of a true intellectual--someone who could accept the weird. --John Cole in Calling Mr. King — Ronald De Feo

City diversity represents accident and chaos. — Jane Jacobs

I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't. — Abbas Kiarostami

Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals — Phil Volatile

I lied as a nightingale sings, ecstatically, self-obliviously; reveling in the new life-harmony which I was creating. — Vladimir Nabokov

I order various types of breakfast and lunches. I do not just come in and order hamburgers all the time. I order the specials, pancakes, bacon and eggs. — John Brady

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed. — Talib Kweli

He was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. — Dean Koontz

Poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished — W.S. Gilbert

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing. — Derek Jeter

It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end. — Laurell K. Hamilton