Suburbia 1983 Movie Quotes & Sayings

I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of ... that gives you a certain power over it. — Kate Grenville

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. — Bernard Baruch

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen. — Steve Backley

Get through this little lesson, the sooner you get — Kiera Cass

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged. — Sun Tzu

Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back. — C.M. Stunich

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. — LeBron James

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table. — Carrie Underwood

To enlighten your life, see beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Coffee or I'll cut you! — Alanea Alder

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust. — Morena Baccarin

The god of Delos, proud in victory,
Saw Cupid draw his bow's taut arc, and said:
'Mischievous boy, what are a brave man's arms
To you? That gear becomes my shoulders best.
My aim is sure; I wound my enemies,
I wound wild beasts; my countless arrows slew
But now the bloated Python, whose vast coils
Across so many acres spread their blight.
You and your loves! You have your torch to light them!Let that content you; never claim my fame!'
And Venus' son replied: 'Your bow, Apollo,
May vanquish all, but mine shall vanquish you.
As every creature yields to power divine,
So likewise shall your glory yield to mine. — Ovid

It was the Culture's fault. It considered itself too civilized and sophisticated to hate its enemies; instead it tried to understand them and their motives, so that it could out-think them and so that, when it won, it would treat them in a way which ensured they would not become enemies again. The — Iain M. Banks