Optimists Die First Quotes

#1. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.

Susan Minot

#2. Anything to piss you off, Brother. Why else? (Arik)
Oh, that's easy enough to do. Basically the fact that you breathe does that. (Solin)
Love you, too. (Arik)
Of course you do, like a plague on your privates. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and hold him. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and pummel him.

Susan Nielsen

#4. I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Samuel L. Jackson

#5. I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

Lee Hendrie

#6. Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me ... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now!

Jack Bauer

#7. Only when we drink poison are we well.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#9. No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

Graham Greene

#10. Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Marc Jacobs

#11. I want justice to be upheld. I want all-out diplomacy.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#12. Your character should always be stronger than your circumstances.

Dave Willis

#13. Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

David Filo

#14. True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#15. Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

Dido Armstrong

#16. Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about

Ringo Starr