Eliot Spencer Quotes

#1. I like to prove things wrong.

Millard Drexler

#2. Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Greg Cox

#3. At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. He's not dead, Parker." He clenched his jaw so hard she could see the muscles working in it.

"Are you just saying that to make me feel better?"

"No, I'm saying it to make myself feel better.

Matt Forbeck

#5. It's time for the Americans to say they're going to live up to their obligations and return the dollars that have been illegally taken from Canadians.

Gordon Campbell

#6. If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I'm shortchanging myself.

Zanele Muholi

#7. It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

James Otis

#8. You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."
"How about I express you out the nearest window?

Greg Cox

#9. Everything I tell you is a lie."

-Vergere

Matthew Woodring Stover

#10. What is that *smell*?"
Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#11. We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

George H. W. Bush

#12. At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

Philip Zimbardo

#13. She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?"
Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?"
Frowning, Sophie asked, "What do you mean?"
Looking right into her eyes, Eliot said, "I care about *all* of them.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#14. The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Criss Jami

#15. The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

Matt Berninger

#16. He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside.

Keith R.A. DeCandido