Workshopping An Idea Quotes & Sayings

When it's like this, I don't notice the cold. I don't hear the wind howling through the empty spaces. I don't feel like a small, broken-winged bird trapped in a rusty cage. — Sarah Ockler

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in. — Paul Theroux

Rather than always impose your will,
allow men to learn from their mistakes.
Great failures make great teachers;
success enables one to forget some things
a failure cannot afford to. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Fortunately, it turns out that being scared of yourself is a somewhat effective motivational technique. — Allie Brosh

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles. — Joni Mitchell

The president has kept all the promises he intended to keep. — George Stephanopoulos

Oh, we"re just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in sky-scraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that kind of thing. "Not much", I answered. — John Green

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

Within this new mix of genes are unprecedented possibilities, old weaknesses eliminated, and new weaknesses that might even turn out to be strengths. This is the mechanism by which the wheels of evolution turn. All — Hope Jahren

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that? — Imelda Staunton

Why do we laugh at insecurity in other people? Why do you get a kick out of someone feeling insecure? Do you not have your own insecurities to battle with? Do you not have your own battles to fight? So where is the honor in finding amusement in the insecurity of another? If someone stepped in just in time to soothe your own struggling mind, wouldn't that have made a world of a difference? Then why wouldn't you do just that, for another? Don't laugh at the insecurities of another person; because that could very well be you. Soothe the minds of others, because that's exactly what you know you are in such need of. — C. JoyBell C.

One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong. — Nicolas Cage

He was playing on the climbing structure by himself - or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it. — Claire Messud