Arisman 2004 Quotes

#1. Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose not to engage in that so much, and end up finding a nice local school that fits.

John Hodgman

#3. Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

Peter Enns

#4. Somehow this seems inevitable, the natural course of things. Maybe he's a homing pigeon. Maybe I'm his home.

Katie Cotugno

#5. Youth hates age, age loves youth.

Kate Tempest

#6. If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.

Chelsea Handler

#7. There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

Marina Abramovic

#8. Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold.

Drew Chadwick

#9. Perhaps your free spirit needs less freedom and more faithfulness.

Kevin DeYoung

#10. Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. One Said, 'My grandfather once planted a Langra tree but, before he could eat the fruit, he had to marry it to another tree. A tamarind. Custom decreed it.'
'I know about that custom,' said a colleague. 'The jasmine is considered a suitable bride for a mango.

Alexander Frater

#12. I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

Lake Bell

#13. Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Robert Half

#14. The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Michael J. Massimino

#15. I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

James Franco