Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves Quotes & Sayings

If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might have overheard your parents apologize for your shyness. Or at school you might have been prodded to come "out of your shell" -that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same. — Susan Cain

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical. — Shigeru Miyamoto

As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth. — Lindsay Lohan

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. — Itzhak Perlman

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle. — James MacDonald

Grandma Ruthie and her sister Jettie hadn't spoken a civil word in about fifteen years. Their last exchange was Ruthie's leaning over Jettie's coffin and whispering, "If you'd married and had children, there would be more people at your funeral." Of course, at the reading of Aunt Jettie's will, Grandma Ruthie was handed an enveloped containing a carefully folded high-resolution picture of a baboon's butt. That pretty much summed up their relationship. — Molly Harper

I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights. — Sebastian Stan

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all. — Vernon A. Walters

Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers. — Gregory Benford

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy. — Alexandra Stoddard

I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well. — Rick Santorum

[ ... ] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it. — Hans Christian Andersen

I'm going to be late. I get home exactly sixteen minutes before my shift starts, which only gives me six minutes to get it together and get out the door. By get it together I mean calm the freak down, because I'm jittery and spastic and acting, as Mo would say, like a squirrel on crack. — Jessica Martinez