Persidis Pain Quotes

#1. I opened my mouth, mad enough to spit, and said loudly, "I don't eat iceberg lettuce!" Really? I asked myself. That's what you're going to throw down with? "I don't care what you eat, just don't be pickin' in there!

Piper Kerman

#2. So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Olivia Wilde

#3. There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#4. Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

Francis Of Assisi

#5. Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can't explain.

T.K. Kiser

#6. There is no need to hold on to what's obsolete: One never loses what one tosses away deliberately.

Dinah Sanders

#7. Well, then you're a moody artist." Under her breath, she added, "You're practically a girl.

S.C. Stephens

#8. I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Thucydides

#9. If you tear open our heart, you will only see Rahul Gandhi ... like Hanuman

Pramod Tiwari

#10. Memory is fiction ... All memory is a way of reconstructing the past ... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. "Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

Damon Galgut

#11. I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

Colin Hanks

#12. I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

Mae Whitman

#13. When healthy people fall in love, they buy a bunch of flowers or an engagement ring and go and Do Something About It. When poets fall in love, they make a list of their loved one's body parts and attach similes to them.

Mark Forsyth

#14. Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets, said Hagrid wisely.

J.K. Rowling

#15. It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.

J. Maarten Troost