Surreptitiously Shadowed Quotes & Sayings

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing. — Tom Cruise

I looked at the actors with whom I'd grown so familiar over the last few months: Scott Holmes (who was playing Mike - and who was eventually credited as "Mike Holmes" because Tommy forgot his real name), — Greg Sestero

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart. — Alan Cooper

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it. — Gordon Ramsay

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. — Georges Bataille

Dark and dirty things come to mind, things like how much pleasure I'd get from putting her in misery. But not the bad kind of misery. No, I want Olivia in the kind of misery that makes her sweat and writhe, and then beg me to come inside her. — M. Leighton

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly. — Howard Stern

We can't even expect our immigration officials not to make citizens of convicted felons.1 Tens of thousands of immigrants have been granted citizenship after being convicted of crimes in the United States. And, no, you can't see their names or read about their crimes. A year before the 1996 presidential election, the Clinton White House worked feverishly to naturalize 1 million immigrants in time for Clinton's reelection. Criminal background checks were jettisoned for 200,000 applicants, so that citizenship was granted to at least 70,000 people with FBI criminal records and 10,000 with felony records.2 Murderers, robbers, and rapists were all made our fellow Americans so the Democrats would have a million new voters by the 1996 election. In 2013 alone, the Obama administration released 36,007 convicted criminal aliens with about 88,000 convictions among them - including 426 for rape and 193 for murder.3 They'll soon be your fellow citizens, too. — Ann Coulter

I wish someone would remind me how to breathe. — Tahereh Mafi

Nadine. The simple reduction of Nadine's primary core self could shunt her potential energy where it would better serve. Instead of living (pointlessly), Nadine could provide 1.2 terajoules of energy to an active volcano on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. Just enough power to tip it over the erupting point, eventually creating 762 square miles of new land. That land would erode in time, but if the goal is survival, the land would last through epochs, while Nadine would last a paltry few years longer on the street. The untapped energy called "Nadine" could foster the survival of a much larger entity for hundreds of thousands of years. Or — Robert Brockway

Don't fear criticism; fear stagnation. — Debasish Mridha

The first diagram that you need on any project is a context diagram. — Michael Jesse Chonoles

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. — A.E. Housman