Wide Awake Book Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't exactly dangerous to be out during the day ... but the Council, every one of them, up to and including August, would have kittens and penguins and little baby narwhals, too, probably, if they knew what I was up to. — Lili St. Crow

A touring band is a family and a workplace at the same time, and you're living with people you didn't necessarily choose every day for up to a year. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land. — Bruce Springsteen

To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG. — Gabe Newell

Great men don't strive for greatness, they
simply do great works. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year. — Dustin Moskovitz

I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other. — Jack Nicklaus

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. — Edward Abbey

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem. — Ilka Chase

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith. — Keke Palmer

I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists. I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table manners. Yet after all why not? Why should a man who thinks all virtue resides in the proletariat still take such pains to drink his soup silently? It can only be because in his heart he feels that proletarian manners are disgusting. — George Orwell

I'm a product of my time. I'm not a criminal. — Svetlana Alexievich