Shooken Def Quotes & Sayings

I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be. — Viola Davis

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' — David T. Hardy

I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully. — David Starkey

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles. — Nelson Mandela

Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others
but we also have to see it in ourselves. — Eckhart Tolle

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. — I. F. Stone

I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around. — Bradley Cooper

And what did the North Star tell the Moon last night? He said "I love you! — Avijeet Das

Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. — Simon Raven

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it. — Nadia Boulanger

My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer. — Donny Osmond

We must find ourselves in fiction — HitRECord

Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten - when Larry Cobb was sober. — Raymond Chandler