Statement Themes Quotes

#1. There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

Eula Biss

#2. Too much analysis kills a thing. Art is created from passion and inspires passion. And passion is beyond reason. Don't you think?

Menna Van Praag

#3. I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.

Usain Bolt

#4. Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

Jane Jacobs

#5. Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

Rita Rudner

#6. Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

Sally Hawkins

#7. Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

Kemmons Wilson

#8. For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

Lori Wilde

#9. This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

Tsugumi Ohba

#10. Earth stuff, Mars boy.

Stephen Baxter

#11. People who are too uptight make me nervous.

Victoria Chang

#12. Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

Nelson Mandela

#13. Yes, I have patterns of love addiction.
But I'm a woman.
Of course I do.

Emma Forrest

#14. The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say 'No, no that's too much.' Let's not worry if that's too much, let's shoot it, and then decide if that's too much when we see it.

Todd Phillips

#15. It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Wroblewski

#16. Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

Brett Gardner