Shutitdown Quotes & Sayings

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless. — Horace Greeley

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. — Walter Cronkite

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. — Samuel Butler

Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly. — Steve Van Matre

Story should be a descent
the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. — Chuck Wendig

Men are by wits not by dicks — Himmilicious

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. — Duane Elgin

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle.

Never forget who you are, never forget where you came from and why you are here on this beautiful planet. — Euginia Herlihy

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal. — Dianna Booher

She was never going to be the kind of person who didn't stick out in all directions. To want it was the same as hating herself. That was the truth. She breathed those words. She could have repeated them a hundred times and they wouldn't have hurt any worse. Reality was stubborn for sure, but it was large and it had possibilities. It was a sweet relief when you let it come. — Ann Brashares

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's bigger than me. She's on a different level of performance that I have never done. — Angelina Jolie

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things ... — Piet Mondrian

Little pitchers have big ears. — John Heywood