Misfires Quotes

#1. Sex is one of the most personal things we do as people. To have someone who says she loves you limit how you express yourself in the bedroom is like a small death. It kills the soul.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained.
[It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.

Sherry Jones

#4. Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Jim Woodring

#5. As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. I call myself a Peaceful Warrior ... because the battles we fight are on the inside

Socrates

#7. To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

Lasse Hallstrom

#8. Thoughts are odd misfires

Patricia Cornwell

#9. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.

Richard Corliss

#10. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

Grant Morrison

#11. Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

Kirk Cameron

#12. Holy cow, he's so fucking sexy.

E.L. James

#13. The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

Amina Mama

#14. I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

Jill Ireland

#15. I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.

Lori Wilde

#16. If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently.

James Redfield

#17. Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#18. I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

J. August Richards

#19. Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr