Inadvertently Define Quotes

#1. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

Suzanne Collins

#2. Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

David Foster Wallace

#3. I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

Paul Bettany

#4. During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

David Lynch

#5. I think you're my apple," she said quietly. "I don't regret tasting you. I can't. You're not perfect by any means - there are sweeter out there, and you have a few rotten spots - but I'd never have found a juicer apple anywhere in the world."-Serah

J.M. Darhower

#6. I usually disliked whatever was being played on a music store's speakers. It spoiled the pleasure of thinking about other music. Record shops, I felt, should be silent spaces; there, more than anywhere else, the mind needed to be clear.

Teju Cole

#7. Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

Kanye West

#8. It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

Karen Scalf Linamen

#10. Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area. Praise God for my mom's good example in how to eat.

Lisa Bedrick

#11. I'm going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Steven Wright