Crooklyn 1994 Quotes

#1. Sleep is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

Jennifer Waldburger

#2. don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!

Libba Bray

#3. This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

David Brinkley

#4. We only keep what we lose.

May Sarton

#5. What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

Jonas Salk

#6. But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

Candace Bushnell

#7. When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

Cory Booker

#8. The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

W. H. Auden

#9. The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.

Lee Kuan Yew

#10. Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.

Milan Kundera

#11. Who the hell wants 14 pairs of shoes when you go on holiday? I haven't had 14 pairs in my life.

Brian Howard Clough

#12. Every experience has its element of magic.

Hermann Hesse

#13. None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

Marva Collins

#14. 'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'

Marlon Wayans