Forestalling Def Quotes

#1. How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

Phil Plait

#2. I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.

Mircea Monroe

#3. Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

Bruce H. Lipton

#4. We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.

Chip Conley

#5. With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters.

Heather Graham Pozzessere

#6. Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Bench

#7. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

Oswald Chambers

#8. My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

Christopher Buckley

#9. That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

Ned Sublette

#10. Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

Pablo Neruda

#11. I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

Alison Brie