Shonkily Quotes

#1. Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

David Mitchell

#2. Never forget the gender of mother earth. This planet is a body through which arterial tides pulse and surge, and within this fluid murk stir serpents, inchoate monstrosities of the amniotic id.

Robert Dunbar

#3. I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Taraji P. Henson

#4. Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. "If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to someone about my parents, I'd hire a psychiatrist."
"Ah," said Jace. "But my services are free."
"I heard that about you.

Cassandra Clare

#5. If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

Nirmala Srivastava

#6. This is what will remain unforgotten

Jessica Brody

#7. This is the final way that keystone habits encourage widespread change: by creating cultures where new values become ingrained.

Charles Duhigg

#8. As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#9. I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#10. Next I know, I'll be calling myself the queen of Romania and wandering down the lane wearing my bed linens for a cape.

Libba Bray

#11. We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Elyn Saks

#12. You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.

David Allen

#13. ...about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

Carrie Fisher

#14. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.

Peter Stamm