Dembling Quotes

#1. I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

#2. You can die anyplace. They've never managed to regulate that.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door

Sophia Dembling

#4. Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Algernon Sidney

#5. In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.

Sophia Dembling

#6. I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me.

Paula Stokes

#7. Being lucky in love might be less a matter of luck and more a matter of paying attention.

Sophia Dembling

#8. If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B.F. Skinner

#10. Another explained, I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment - you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.

Sophia Dembling

#11. It's not that introverts aren't good team players. We just don't need to be in the same room as the rest of the team at all times. We would much prefer to have part of the project carved out for us to squirrel away with it in our offices, consulting as necessary but working independently.

Sophia Dembling

#12. A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.

Davis Bunn

#13. Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

Sophia Dembling

#14. We didn't know you were an introvert, we thought you were just a bitch.

Sophia Dembling

#15. Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success
painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm
is all well and good, but if you haven't become famous doing it, then did it really matter?

Sophia Dembling

#16. You went to the catamaran with him?" Marcus couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You've been boating together?"
"Yes, boating
not boinking
boating!" Rosie screeched.

Suzy Duffy

#17. Just because you want to join the party does not mean you are required to stay until the last drunk passes out.

Sophia Dembling

#18. Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.

Sophia Dembling

#19. I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.

Sophia Dembling

#20. Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.

Sophia Dembling

#21. You'd have coffee on a drip if you could, wouldn't you?

Kristina Adams

#22. Ah, yes, the mix tape. The mating call of the introvert.

Sophia Dembling

#23. Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent
mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

Sophia Dembling

#24. Jake Sullivan, elder of the Grimnoir Society, kept the sword and watched the sunrise. Someday he would pass it to his son. END

Anonymous

#25. I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

Mike Farrell

#26. Just because I'm quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say.

Sophia Dembling