Shockers Quotes & Sayings

I'm scared of clowns. — Jada Pinkett Smith

If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust ... on the point of my finger, ... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars. — Edgar Allan Poe

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it. — Jess Lair

You're good. You're very good. It's chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get into your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade. — Dashiell Hammett

We're in our own world, and we're in the world that has been given us outside, and the problem is to achieve3 a harmonious relationship between the two. I come into this society, so I've got to live in terms of this society. It's ridiculous not to live in terms of this society because, unless I do, I'm not living. But I mustn't allow this society to dictate to me how I should live. One has to build up one's own system that may violate the expectations of the society, and sometimes society doesn't accept that. But the task of life is to live within the field provided by the society that is really supporting you. — Joseph Campbell

Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as 'disappeared persons', and their waiting wives are the 'half-widows'. — Basharat Peer

Time wasted is a theft from God. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Don't expect to achieve your best
while you expect the worst.
Change your attitude and be
a little more positive.
Great things are coming your way.
Be patient. — Leon Brown

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in. — Orel Hershiser

The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. — Sara Gruen

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good. — Graham Hawkes

Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs. — Anthony Boucher

The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community. — Ashton Eaton

There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places. — Bob Dylan

Last night I went out for Chinese. I picked up a Team USA Olympic uniform. — Jay Leno