Modern Times 1936 Quotes

#1. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

Michael Connelly

#3. Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

William Shakespeare

#4. My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jenna Jameson

#5. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Michael Haneke

#6. Fearing our confrontations is one thing ... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.

Mark W. Boyer

#7. There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

George Jean Nathan

#8. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much ... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. God never wastes an experience or trial in our lives. Good or bad, easy or painful, he is able to use everything in our lives to grow us and make us more like him.

Amy Wallace

#10. Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

Marlon James