Firoozi Babak Quotes

#1. And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I'm the lonely voice-over narrator of adolescence. The bitter, voice-over voice.

Joanna Pearson

#2. I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.

Mark Indelicato

#3. People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.

Robert Fisk

#4. Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Robert Breault

#5. Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

Donald Richie

#6. A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.

Steven Hall

#7. Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.

Barack Obama

#9. The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become.

Jodie Sweetin

#10. The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama played for.

Jay Leno

#11. Death from the skies!

Ransom Riggs

#12. Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

Steve Yegge