Shoddiest Quotes

#1. On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

#2. Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country ... with hope and delight.

Louis Auchincloss

#3. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving.

Brene Brown

#4. I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

Brian McKnight

#5. If love was easy, there would be almost no music.

Jake Johannsen

#6. I span the entire geek spectrum.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Jorge Amado

#8. The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever will.

Ken Liu

#9. I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

Arlo Guthrie

#10. The breath of the mind is attention 128

Joseph Joubert

#11. Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

Richard Widmark

#12. The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

Joseph Brant

#13. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

Dean Smith