Nestful Quotes

#1. Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

George Eliot

#2. To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

William James

#3. People're a nestful of needs. Dull needs, sharp needs, bottomless-pit needs, flash-in-the-pan needs, needs for things you can't hold, needs for things you can.

David Mitchell

#4. I had too much power, I thought. I might consume him out of my own curiosity simply because I could. I could stay or go. He could not. He had too much power, I thought. He could reject me. He could break me in two.

Rebecca Walker

#5. If there's anything I can do, it's to present an alternative vision for the country.

Richard Di Natale

#6. I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

Judd Apatow

#7. It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

Lauren Oliver

#8. That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

Morgan Freeman

#9. For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program.

Tom Robbins

#10. I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.

Jimmy Wales

#11. Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.

Arthur Zajonc

#12. If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it," he says. "Including me."
"No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings." Christina pokes his arm. "Don't you know your own faction?

Veronica Roth

#13. Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

George Vecsey

#14. I don't want to do just a liberal show.

Joy Behar

#15. As he entered the comm room, Troy wasn't sure if he should laugh or cry at the realization. Then he remembered how the world was run before, and that nothing had really changed. He chuckled sadly

Hugh Howey

#16. The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. Sometimes it takes watching someone else observe how you live to realize exactly how you live.

Jasmine Warga