Sam > Sam 's Quotes

“I'm allergic to stupidity.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`
With that said, I'll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I'll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x - 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??
And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can't become a psychologist, a future lawyer can't become a lawyer, and I can't become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.
Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don't take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn't need to know that 'The Phantom of the Opoera' was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.
Get my point?”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he ever wrote me, 'Once upon a time, there was a boy.' And that became 'Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to fly.' And they kept getting better and better over time. I never found out if the boy got to fly."

I gave her a small smile. If only she knew the boy's wings had been clipped.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.”
― Chris Colfer

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”
― Chris Colfer

“Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.”
― Chris Colfer

“I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think.”
― Chris Colfer

“I've learned that the more people embrace their disadvantages, the less disadvantaged they become!”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.”
― Chris Colfer

“Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“To Grandma,
for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in.”
― Chris Colfer

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
― Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator”
― Chris Colfer

“Dexter,' Debs said, jerking her head at me. 'Get some smelling salts or something. You and Deke help her up.'
(...) Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch. 'Hey, you got some of that smelling stuff?' he said.
Apparently it had become universally accepted that Dexter was the Eternal Keeper of the Smelling Salts.
I had no idea where that baffling canard had come from, but in truth, I was completely without.
Luckily, Mrs Aldovar apparently was not interested in sniffing anything.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious

“But it's different for a girl, and Astor is at the age- It's not too dry, is it?" She said, frowning at my plate.
"It's perfect," I said.
"It is dry; I'm sorry. So I thought maybe if you would talk to her," Rita finished. I truly hoped she meant talk to Astor and not the pork chop.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Double Dexter

“That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Potter, coincidence got my vote.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Double Dexter