Shapley Maine Quotes & Sayings

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. — Steve Carell

I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young! — Jonas Armstrong

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening. — Nilakanta Sri Ram

That," Adriana said, "is a puzzling mystery that must be solved. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

All money represents theft ... To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true. — Jerry Rubin

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions. — George W. Bush

The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy. — Mancur Olson

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves. — Rachel Zucker

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing. — Simon Cowell

What's wrong?" he said. "I'll tell you what's wrong: you're killing us."
"But I thought that's what you wanted?"
"We did," my mother wept, "but not this way."
It hadn't occurred to me until that moment, but I seemed to have come full circle. What started as a dodge had inadvertently become my life's work, an irony I never could have appreciated had my extraordinary parents not put me through Princeton. — David Sedaris