Top 100 Ned Quotes
#1. Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
Ned Vizzini
#2. Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
Ned Rorem
#3. I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.
Ned Hayes
#4. Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.
Ned Colletti
#5. I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
Ned Beauman
#6. But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing.
Ned Vizzini
#7. People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
Ned Vizzini
#8. The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!
Ned Vizzini
#9. Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Ned Rorem
#10. Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
Ned Sublette
#11. The strength of the trees around me became a tide carrying me ceaselessly forward.
Ned Hayes
#12. It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.
Ned Vizzini
#13. Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.
Ned Rorem
#14. Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.
Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?
Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious.
Courtney Milan
#15. I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
Ned Beatty
#16. They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.
Ned Vizzini
#17. I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.
Ned Vizzini
#18. The people are Anchors," I say.
"People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.
Ned Vizzini
#19. Each tree hears signals from an unseen internal time system ... perhaps even from the stars ... Then the tree renews its conquest of the air every spring.
Ned Hayes
#20. They're sort of ancillary, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
Ned Vizzini
#21. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.
Ned Vizzini
#22. The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.
Ned Vizzini
#23. I know that you're not supposed to think about dancing - what is that stupid expression, Sing like no one's listening, dance like no one's watching? - whatever.
Ned Vizzini
#24. Snoopy Ned Nickerson went to the cupboard
To find Nancy Drew a clue.
But when he got there,
Each cupboard was bare
And so there was no clue for Drew.
Carolyn Keene
#25. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
Ned Vizzini
#26. If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.
Ned Rorem
#27. Nia, it wasn't about you." "Are you sure?" I look down, and the answer is right there in my chest and it's resounding. "Yes. I have bigger problems than you.
Ned Vizzini
#28. Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right.
Ned Vizzini
#29. Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Ned Rorem
#30. If you really don't care what an audience thinks, make a home movie and show it on your wall.
Ned Tanen
#31. Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark.
Bronn: I hear he was taller.
Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.
George R R Martin
#32. I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
Ned Beauman
#33. New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.
Ned Sublette
#35. I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool.
Ned Vizzini
#36. Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..........(thump)
Ned Vizzini
#37. The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
#38. Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse.
George R R Martin
#39. Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.
George R R Martin
#40. You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed
Ned Vizzini
#41. I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown ... let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.
Ned Kelly
#42. I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them.
Ned Vizzini
#43. Most of us assume we are seeing the world the way it really is.
Ned Herrmann
#44. Bees see colors in the ultraviolet range that humans cannot. Some flowers have colored maps like little runways to show the bees where to land. Humans are blind to these special markings, but the bees see them. - NED BLOODWORTH'S BEEKEEPER'S JOURNAL
Karen White
#45. So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.
Ned Vizzini
#46. Poison is a coward's weapon' the king complained. Ned had heard enough. 'You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?
George R R Martin
#47. On some nights, I put old episodes of Dukes of Hazzard on and paused every scene with Daisy, wrapping my hand in a Confederate t-shirt or tube sock and going to town on my dick.
LeRoy Ned Malone
#48. That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
Ned Vizzini
#49. Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
Ned Beauman
#50. I know these trees by their feel and their scent. I don't have to turn on my light to know them. The wind blows through the trees. The leaves and needles shake. Almost I feel the wind is sweeping through me as well.
Ned Hayes
#51. But as the years passed, Ned's silence grew and grew. It pressed upon his face and his body. It leaked into the house and spread outward into the yard. His silence had weight. It had substance and presence and teeth.
Kelly Barnhill
#52. Rudy is a mutt; my father says he's a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must've been some wild dog sex.
Ned Vizzini
#53. I have an issue with dogs - I can't pick up after them. It's nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant.
Ned Vizzini
#54. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.
Ned Vizzini
#55. I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
Ned Vizzini
#56. Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend.
Ned Vizzini
#57. SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think.
Ned Vizzini
#58. Every tounge bit had another word to say.
Ned Vizzini
#59. Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
Ned Beauman
#60. No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal.
George R R Martin
#61. I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.
Ned Colletti
#62. A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.
Ned Sublette
#64. Catelyn had not eaten today. Perhaps that had been unwise. She told herself that there had been no time, but the truth was that food had lost its savor in a world without Ned. 'When they took his head off, they killed me too.
George R R Martin
#65. See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
Ned Vizzini
#66. Time can be difficult for me. It is a continuous thing, and it has no boundaries. Sometimes it moves very fast and sometimes very slow.
Ned Hayes
#67. It's no use blaming anyone now.
Ned Kelly
#68. I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.
Sarah Caudwell
#69. Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
A. Lee Martinez
#70. Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think ... it's me".
Ned Vizzini
#71. It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
Ned Vizzini
#72. Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.
Ned Vizzini
#73. And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
Ned Vizzini
#74. A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.
H. Ned Seelye
#76. My one friend is a screwup - a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.
Ned Vizzini
#77. I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.
Ned Beatty
#78. You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.
Ned Vizzini
#79. After I completed the tree climb in the damp mist, my hands were covered with a muddy residue of bark and rainwater, and I was exhausted. But I was very happy.
Ned Hayes
#80. Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
Ned Vizzini
#81. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.
Ned Vizzini
#82. A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.
William Shakespeare
#83. 'Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they cost too much to send to college. They're a blessing - in many ways the only blessing - and even the evil ones have parents who love them.
Ned Vizzini
#84. Ned watched her. She was young and pretty - a "handsome blonde," as he later described her.
Erik Larson
#85. Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.
Ned Vizzini
#86. Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.
Ned Vizzini
#87. If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.
Ned Kelly
#88. You couldn't truly love anything if you didn't hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn't truly love anything if you didn't hate almost everything.
Ned Beauman
#89. She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
Ned Vizzini
#90. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.
I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
Ned Vizzini
#91. Any story is an ocean whose tide begins in a place I can't know, and my life is but a moment in that flood, my part in it only a mote in the flow.
Ned Hayes
#93. My arms sometimes move on their own in big flapping motions, as if I might take off, and my hands spin like a hummingbird's wings.
Ned Hayes
#94. She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face.
Ned Vizzini
#95. People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.
Ned Vizzini
#96. I do not believe in anything that I cannot see with my own eyes or hear with my own ears.
Ned Hayes
#98. You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?"
"Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.
Ned Vizzini
#99. I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.
Ned Vizzini
#100. I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.
Ned Vizzini
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