Simonize Quotes & Sayings

I heard this old country guy say once, "I think you decide pretty early on how happy you're going to be, and then you just go on and be it." But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot of the people I met in the bin, I think personal choice has very little to do with it. — Robert Goolrick

You should only become a writer if the possibility of not becoming one would kill you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality. — Patricia Briggs

Why are there more male hyperpolyglots? One answer is that speaking a lot of languages is a geek macho thing (...) It seemed that a woman is less likely to say she "speaks" or "knows" a language if she studied it at some point in the past, while a man, wanting to display his giant repertoire, would include it. — Michael Erard

If you have to do the work, it well. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mother Nature does not do bailouts. — Al Gore

( ... ) the New Woman of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date - to work her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother's generation. ( ... ) She flouted Victorian-era conventions and scandalized her parents. In many ways, she controlled her own destiny. — Joshua Zeitz

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff ... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself. — Adam Lambert

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth — Mahatma Gandhi

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. — Aaron Tveit

The new has no special claim on the true. — Eric Greitens

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. — Haruki Murakami

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist. — C.P. Snow