Softheaded Quotes

#1. Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.

Don Maruska

#2. If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

Chuck Klosterman

#3. The miracle of wonder is sacred writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

James Baldwin

#5. Sometimes pain is the call of a wound that needs tending, and sometimes it is the sting of its healing.

Melissa Febos

#6. Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

Liu Cixin

#7. I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.

Manolo Blahnik

#8. Strange, what the heart can bear. It can carry grief beyond measure. It can bear a weight that is too great to speak of. But a heart can't bear the world. It has its limits ...

Susan Fletcher

#9. Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.

Amy Poehler