Short Trippy Sayings

#1. Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

Les Brown

#2. I focus best and am most productive when I'm working in a friend's empty apartment. It's hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Elissa Schappell

#3. They dig inside your soul and find your greatest wish! (Very helpful if you've lost your tongue or your voice and need to tell a prince to kiss you.)

Soman Chainani

#4. Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

Karen Tayleur

#5. It's amazing ... to enjoy the results of your labor.

Michael Rady

#6. When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#7. As the paramedics lifted her, my grandmother's corpulent arms swung like bat wings with the life squeezed out of them.

Andrew Davidson

#8. When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Helen Vendler

#9. I never looked at Gallagher like he was a threat to me.

Carrot Top

#10. A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

Stefan Molyneux

#11. If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

Ronald Reagan

#12. You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

#13. Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

Alan Bennett