Externus Abdominis Quotes

#1. There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.

Sonny Vaccaro

#2. I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

Mariella Frostrup

#3. Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Every stupid thing in the world, decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer, makes perfect sense, not because you're any smarter, but because the smart part of your brain's on vacation.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. As desires drive a society's changes, they don't necessarily drive its best interests.

Wayne D. Liebhard, M.D.

#6. She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!

Avijeet Das

#7. The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Terry Zwigoff

#8. Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

Peter Kropotkin

#9. A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

Henri Matisse

#10. Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created.

Timothy Simpson

#11. I escape into sleep. Sleep is what I'll miss most when I die.

Clare Cavanagh

#12. Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!

Tamora Pierce

#13. I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

King Tuff

#14. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. What affected people's health most in these studies wasn't the actual level of control that people had in their jobs, but the amount of control they perceived themselves as having.

Sheena Iyengar