“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.”
― The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
― The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
“He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don’t go.”
― City of Bones
― City of Bones
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