Twisting Throttles Quotes & Sayings

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points. — Mike Birbiglia

Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it. — Bill Nye

At home, at our most vulnerable, she's Mummy. When we're talking to other people she's Mum, but in my head she's just Mia because I've been angry at her so many times that I've wanted to distance myself from her. — Melina Marchetta

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. — Oscar Wilde

I live to write but, I read to live. — Gail Gentry

I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting. — Greg Wise

We are all put in different positions for different reasons. — Kim Alexis

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity. — Ayn Rand

When our false perception is corrected, misery ends also. — Adi Shankaracarya

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. — Terry Pratchett

And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. I know Who goes before me. I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side. The One who reigns forever, He is a Friend of mine. The God of angel armies Is always by my side. — Chris Tomlin

If this is the freedom you speak of... I want no part of it. — K. Weikel

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it. — James Marsden

Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think. — Dan Brown