Deflecting Behavior Quotes

#1. You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

Julian Fellowes

#2. I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.

Deepa Mehta

#3. Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.

Stephen King

#5. Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

Arthur Koestler

#6. Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

Philip Pullman

#7. Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#8. A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

David Foster Wallace

#9. The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

James Tate

#10. life may end, but memories last forever

Frank

#11. I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.

Bill Murray

#12. Life without making progress is dead. What is life if you don't embrace new truths that scare you, meet people who intimidate you, and so on.

Assegid Habtewold

#13. As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

Gordon Smith