Admati Ted Quotes

#1. I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

Michael Silverblatt

#2. A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.

Melody Carstairs

#3. I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Conor Oberst

#4. It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#6. Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.

Ilona Andrews

#8. I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.

Sarah Waters

#9. You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist!

Kurt Angle

#10. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Debasish Mridha

#11. How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Craig Thompson

#12. My world speeds up. After years of moving along in slow motion, I am suddenly surging through the moments. He touches me, and like flame to dry grass, I am consumed.

Julie Cantrell

#13. Blessed is he who listens
with the ear of his heart

Rumi

#14. Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

Buddy Guy