Schmidt Dear Ndugu Quotes

#1. Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

Richard Simmons

#2. My grandmother used to say we were born of a great fire. I wish I knew what she meant by that.

Yaa Gyasi

#3. I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Larry David

#4. Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'

Barbara Broccoli

#5. Well I give you an A," Carol said. "A+++ . . . and some extra credit . . . and some cookies. But I guess here they'd have to be virtual cookies and they wouldn't be nearly as cool. Except - if they were virtual, you could taste them, but not actually gain the calories. Oh, that would be genius.

Chad Morris

#6. Probably the sky a hundred yards or so above your head is still nothing more than sky to you. But all that means is that the storehouse happens to be empty at the moment.

Kenzaburo Oe

#7. I didn't refuse often enough.

Henry James

#8. Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

Horace

#9. The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure ... a tomato, an adventure.

Muriel Barbery

#10. For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

Gina Barreca

#11. I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

Toby Stephens

#12. I love to write and I assure you I write regularly ... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

J.D. Salinger