Sirky Quotes

#1. It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

Ed Diener

#2. When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#3. Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass

Charles Bukowski

#4. But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Georg Brandes

#5. I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself off because no one of my size has ever been in this magazine [Sports Illustrated] and I need other women to know that they are just as beautiful.

Ashley Graham

#6. Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.

James Kahn

#7. It has been that way ever since the Greeks - a blind fuck in the mud and then a quick spawn and then death.

Henry Miller

#8. How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

Melina Marchetta

#9. When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

Lei Jun

#10. I'm really happy. I just don't choose to show it.

Karl Pilkington

#11. All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.

Mo Willems

#12. It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family.

David Heyman

#13. Maybe he's become addicted to living, he thinks, its gentle terror like the rush of insect wings against his face.

Jennifer Mills