Asphyxiating Quotes

#1. Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved ... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

John Green

#2. It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

Jake T. Austin

#3. We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I'm sure a lot of bands are like, 'I need my own space.' But we don't. I want to be with these guys forever.

Hillary Scott

#4. We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Giorgio De Chirico

#5. I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

Robert Battle

#6. A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Christina Stead

#7. Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;

W. H. Auden

#8. I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Juicy J

#9. I'm grown ass man and grown ass men can do whatever they want, got it?

Zach Braff

#10. Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

William Wordsworth

#11. War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

Julius Caesar

#12. But there we are. Some things never do make perfect sense. There must be some explanation, and it is perhaps a little like the Doctrine of the Perfect Partner. We must be content to know that she exists, somewhere in the world, and try not to care overmuch that we will probably never meet her.

Iain M. Banks