Speckmanns Quotes & Sayings

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs. — Terry Pratchett

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown — Honore De Balzac

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed. — Nathalie Emmanuel

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving. — Dennis Waitley

This, truly, is the ugly side of rampant neo-liberalist capitalism," I thought to myself, leaving hurriedly. "Not even the Swedes would put Camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger." The — Michael Booth

I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as the medicines, sometimes even more. — Hillary Jordan

Alphole heroes are just domineering assholes disguising themselves as alpha males. Real alpha males don't need to be assholes. — Sarah Wendell

But I thought I'd always be your little boy?" "That's just something parents say when it suits us. — Sunjeev Sahota

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more. — Alafair Burke

Pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor