Lippett Quotes

#1. Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.

Jean Webster

#2. Life is fragile. Screw all that hesitant bullshit. We were going to go for it.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#3. Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Honore De Balzac

#4. Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

Beau Garrett

#6. Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#7. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. And once you are that fat, the 'fuck-it-factor; comes into play. The fuck-it factor means that you know (even the most basic grasp of nutrition) it will take ages to lose your excess weight, so you might as well get an easy lay by sticking half a packet of Hula Hoops into a tub of cheese spread.

Rae Earl

#9. I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

Thom Gunn

#10. I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.