Alleycats Songs Quotes

#1. I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.

Jon Krakauer

#2. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.

Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus

#3. ANDREW: But do you think there's a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?
FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

Damien Chazelle

#4. What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

Brian Joyce

#5. We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.

Antonio Damasio

#6. In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

Natasha Lyonne

#7. In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities' willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to speculation about what the demographer Philip Longman calls the survival of the godliest.

Ross Douthat

#8. Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are - there we are in the Golden Future.

Aldous Huxley

#9. This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

Lauren Oliver

#10. I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go.

Bell Hooks

#11. The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Banal, prepackaged sentiments neatly wrapped with a bow on top, like she got them at the resentful-wife store. And when she used them, you could tell how much she was tapping into their universal power. She was destroyed and destructive and had to say something.

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

#13. The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Victor Borge

#14. Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.

John C. Maxwell