Biesiadecki Marvin Quotes

#1. I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.

Lionel Shriver

#2. When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

Helen Nearing

#4. T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

#5. that the reason we know others exist is because when they look at us, we feel looked at. He called the entity that was staring back at us the Other.

Adrian Barnes

#6. If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Julie Andrews

#7. There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

Diane Wakoski

#8. When you treat your failures as lessons, you can never fail.

Udai Yadla

#9. Real sharpness comes without effort.

Li Mu

#10. [L]anguage is not the sign of the idea actually existing in the mind of the speaker - but of that which (s)he desires to convey to the hearer.

Philip Beauchamp

#11. You can take a flyin' leap off a space dock.

M. Pax

#12. It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!"

Kathleen Turner

#13. The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn