Undesirables Commoners Quotes & Sayings

I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers. — Geraldine Page

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual. — Misty Copeland

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent. — Tom Platz

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right. — Donna Edwards

Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed. — Arundhati Roy

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Voyages are accomplished inwardly. — Henry Miller

I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done. — Nicklas Bendtner

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. — Paul Berg

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. — Bob Uecker

What you will become is a result of what you are willing to endure. Are you willing to work hard? To think hard? I know that you are. You always have been. — Eric Greitens

People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be. — Lee Child