Proficients Quotes

#1. But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

John Boehner

#3. I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' ... You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

Chelsea Handler

#4. Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy
He's English! And Mom ... Mom hates foreigners!
- Cat

Jeaniene Frost

#5. Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

M.F.K. Fisher

#6. It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

E. O. Wilson

#7. I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

John Gutfreund

#8. Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.

John Lewis Gaddis

#9. Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

Adam Garcia

#10. The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

Victor Burgin

#11. We are somebody's memories when we are gone,

Devania Annesya

#12. I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

Anson Mount

#13. On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart - and their solution also lies in the human heart.

Joseph Goldstein

#14. Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

Helen McCloy

#15. I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

Tony Scott