254 Millimeters Quotes

#1. I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.

Bill Kirchen

#2. If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.

Jan C. Ting

#3. Being a junkie, when you broke it down, was nothing more than a crazed day job.

Jerry Stahl

#4. I'd always thought that being seen was about what people perceived with their eyes. But by the time the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School made the fall trip to the aquarium, I, Suzy Swanson, had disappeared entirely. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.

Ali Benjamin

#5. There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Noam Chomsky

#6. I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

Dan Marino

#7. He touches me with every look he gives me, and she touches me with every word she tells me.

Ella Frank

#8. The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Veronica Roth

#9. I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

Tom Stoppard

#10. Museums, I love museums.

Tony Randall

#11. Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.

Ellen Page

#12. I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Sherman Alexie