The Carrie Diaries Memorable Quotes & Sayings

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way. — Jerry Trainor

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship. — Wendell Berry

Lust opens your eyes, passion opens your heart, but love opens your soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Go mad I cannot: I maintain
The perilous outpost of the sane. — Herman Melville

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties. — Justin Timberlake

When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying, restorative and life-changing. It was something that "got you through the tough times," which "any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity." God was a trip to Cancun. — Marisha Pessl

This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake. — Mark Twain

Novel writing seems an altogether less intimidating occupation when one considers that one only need produce a small tale. — Charlie Lovett

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. — Edmund Randolph

Memories are funny things, aren't they? They're like your own private little picture show. You can edit and splice and put 'em together any way you want. — Layce Gardner

so hard, sometimes, to tag those memories accurately. — Margaret Atwood

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion.
GQ 71 (GQ is A Guide for Quorums of the Melchizedek Priesthood, 3rd Edition, 1930) — John Andreas Widtsoe

Devout Buddhists believe in sonam - an accounting of righteous deeds that, when large enough, enables one to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth and transcend forever this world of pain and suffering. — Jon Krakauer

Look around you ... Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world. — Nancy Farmer

But therein lies the paradox: Speaking out and being "real" are not necessarily virtues. Sometimes voicing our thoughts and feelings shuts down the lines of communication, diminishes or shames another person, or makes it less likely that two people can hear each other or even stay in the same room. Nor is talking always a solution. We know from personal experience that our best intentions to process a difficult issue can move a situation from bad to worse. We can also talk a particular subject to death, or focus on the negative in a way that draws us deeper into it, when we'd be better off distracting ourselves and going bowling. — Harriet Lerner