Verdient Toolkit Quotes & Sayings

I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me ... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space. — Eckhart Tolle

It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real. — Jenny Han

I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these. — Adelaide Crapsey

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. — Brent Scowcroft

Walter, my first wife, Laila, used to throw around a quote. I don't know who said it first, but it went something like, 'If men menstruated, there would floating federal holidays for them. — Seth Kaufman

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami. — Connie Sellecca

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence. — Michael Ian Black

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life. — Deb Baker

I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger. — Lin Shaye

Let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental. — Judith Guest

We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever. — Cassia Leo

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine. — Neil Gaiman

The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up. — Jane Jacobs