Deadpanned Perfectly Quotes

#1. Kill the guard real dead for me," Matt said when Grayson made a move toward the door, "and pick up Chinese food".

Dorothy McFalls

#2. The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

Kenny Loggins

#4. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Carl Sagan

#5. The speaker was stringy and angular, his blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, his plaid workman's shirtsleeves rolled up around his pale biceps. Journalism major, I guessed.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.

Mary McCormack

#7. A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

Andy Goldsworthy

#8. My parents had a long and eventful marriage and were always a bit like movie stars to me when they were young.

Monique Roffey

#9. This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Jane Hirshfield

#10. Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.

Bill Ballance

#11. Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

John D. Rockefeller

#12. My audiences who love me don't mind me dancing with two left feet.

Sunny Deol

#13. The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.

William S. Burroughs

#15. I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more successful we will be in understanding the natural gifts of our own brains, as well as more effectively help people recover from neurological trauma.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#16. Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor'
always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.

Chelsea Handler