Yonover Chicago Quotes & Sayings

Just say the word and I'll make him stay.
I have to do it.
There's no have to. Not even now. — Alex Adams

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them. — Kurt Busiek

It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director. — Len Wiseman

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes. — Sybille Bedford

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives! — Bela Karolyi

It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Other men may be in raptures at his skill, but the rest of creation is, by and large, unmoved. Perhaps a cat or a dog may look at him; his horse, if it is an exceptionally intelligent beast, may pause in cropping the grass, but that is the extent of it. But when the fairy sang, the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself. — Susanna Clarke

You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows. — Dylan Moran

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. — Mignon McLaughlin

She had not been his and now she was his. Or she had always been his and just now knew it. Cora's attention detached itself. It floated someplace past the burning slave and the great house and the lines that defined the Randall domain. She tried to fill in its details from stories, sifting through the accounts of slaves who had seen it. Each time she caught hold of something - buildings of polished white stone, an ocean so vast that there wasn't a tree in sight, the shop of a colored blacksmith who served no master but himself - it wriggled free like a fish and raced away. She would have to see it for herself if she were to keep it. — Colson Whitehead

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school. — Betty Dodson

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it. — John M. Perkins

What's going on?" Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior.
"I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like," Hadrian explained. "What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?"
He shrugged. "What can I say? I'm a glass-half-empty kinda guy."
"Half empty?" Hadrian chuckled. "Was there ever any drink in that glass? — Michael J. Sullivan

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future. — Rand Paul