"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what YOU want. Go for it."
— Heath Ledger

"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)

"Expressing my opinion is not a terrorist action. "
— Kat Stratford

"She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow."
— Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)

"a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast? "
— Jodi Picoult

"I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tries, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want."
— Martha Grimes (Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery)

"This was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what eveything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this; it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now."
— Sarah Dessen The Truth about Forever

"As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive."
— Sarah Dessen The Truth about Forever

"He was born to be WWE Champion

[talking about John Cena]"
— Mr Mcmahon

"I'm like a bad tempered prom queen at a homecoming dance, And I claim I'm not excited with my life any more. So I blame this town, this job, these friends. The truth is it's myself… By the time I get things figured out, I've change the whole dang plan… Talking shit about a pretty sunset. Blanketing opinions I’ll probably regret soon. Ive changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it. I’ve changed me so much I can’t even trust myself"
— Modest Mouse

""Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own." (Michelle Paver, Oath Breaker, p. 146)"
— Michelle Paver

"Scripps: Love can be very irritating.
Posner: How do you know?
Scripps: That's what I always think about God. Must get so pissed off, everybody adoring him all the time.
Posner: Yes, only you don't catch God poncing about in his underpants. "
— The History Boys

"I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life"
— June Jordan (Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan)

"There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little."
— Charles Bukowski (The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship)

"She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian."
— Heather Vogel Frederick

"Nor could I fail to recall my friendship with Howard K. Beale, professor of American History at the University of North Carolina. There he was, one day in 1940, standing just outside my room in the men’s dormitory at St. Augustine’s, in his chesterfield topcoat, white silk scarf, and bowler hat, with his calling card in hand, perhaps looking for a silver tray in which to drop it. Paul Buck, whom he knew at Harvard, had told him to look me up. He wanted to invite me to his home in Chapel Hill to have lunch or dinner and to meet his family. From that point on we saw each other regularly.
After I moved to Durham, he invited me each year to give a lecture on “The Negro in American Social Thought” in one of his classes. One day when I was en route to Beale’s class, I encountered one of his colleagues, who greeted me and inquired where I was going. I returned the greeting and told him that I was going to Howard Beale’s class to give a lecture. After I began the lecture I noticed that Howard was called out of the class. He returned shortly, and I did not give it another thought. Some years later, after we both had left North Carolina, Howard told me that he had been called out to answer a long-distance phone call from a trustee of the university who had heard that a Negro was lecturing in his class. The trustee ordered Beale to remove me immediately. In recounting this story, Beale told me that he had said that he was not in the habit of letting trustees plan his courses, and he promptly hung up. Within a few years Howard accepted a professorship at the University of Wisconsin. A favorite comment from Chapel Hill was that upon his departure from North Carolina, blood pressures went down all over the state.

Chapter IX, From Slavery to Freedom
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— John Hope Franklin (Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin)

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"As an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you your intellect. Those are things that you have. Theyre not things that you are. Therefore you have to start to become aware of the different requirements that human beings have, the different areas that they like to be satisfied in.""
— -Alan Moore

"Just because the plumbing has been installed doesn't mean that the house is ready to be occupied."
— Dorothy (The Golden Girls)

"Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them."
— Edith Wharton

""It's not really a surprise we were known as the weaker sex, because you literally cannot get a breath. So it's sort of, as soon as you start getting emotional, if you're doing an emotional scne, you can't calm down. you can't literally draw a breath to try and center yourself again," she said. "It's no wonderful they were sort of fainting all over the place.""
— Keira Knightley

"People that don't know me, think I'm quite.
People that know me, wish i was."
— nn

"Sid Hite makes the greatest books"
— Sid Hite (The Distance of Hope)

"In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"THE GESTURE

The question is: how does one hold an
apple
Who likes apples

And how does one handle
Filth? The question is

How does one hold something
In the mind which he intends

To grasp and how does the salesman
Hold a bauble he intends

To sell? The question is
When will there not be a hundred

Poets who mistake that gesture
For a style."
— George Oppen (New Collected Poems)

"Impossible to doubt the world: it can
be seen
And because it is irrevocable

It cannot be understood, and I believe
that fact is lethal"
— George Oppen (New Collected Poems)

"I think I tend to be drawn to, a lot of the stories have really strong family elements. I'm really drawn to that element of it. I think that's one of the biggest hooks of the show for me, is like, what do these powers do to the relationships in everybody's lives? I really feel like the dynamic in the Bennett family is really compelling and really complicated."
— Zachary Quinto