Machiya Sisyphus Quotes

#1. We're all hangmen.

Lauren Oliver

#2. I'm not cocky. I'm confident. It's a fine line, but there's a difference."

"Oh? And what's the difference?"

"It's simple. Confidence comes from knowing your skill and your worth while cocky attempts to cover the lack of both.

D.G. Whiskey

#3. This is your reminder to wear your heart on your sleeve more often.

Siobhan Vivian

#4. I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

Matt Damon

#5. Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans ... because I can still feel that affinity.

Jean Sibelius

#6. Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

Michael Stipe

#7. What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Catherine McCormack

#8. The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.

Robert Harris

#9. Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.

Tom Doig

#10. Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Albert Einstein

#11. Some of us give up[ ... ] with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success.

Yann Martel

#12. I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.

Rita Rudner

#13. It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.

Jacob Ruppert