Ilja Racek Quotes

#1. I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Dorothy Allison

#2. I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

J.J. Abrams

#3. No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.

Sam Smith

#4. I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Kathleen Hanna

#5. People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

Luciano Pavarotti

#6. If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

Rahul Gandhi

#7. Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

Wendy Kopp

#9. You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

James Bobin

#10. I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Sally Mann

#11. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.

Julie Powell