Storify Dear Quotes

#1. People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Ned Vizzini

#2. I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

Steven Spielberg

#3. Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

Louis Auchincloss

#4. The desktop held a patina of hieroglyphs representing years of student boredom - names and initials gouged into the wood, blackened by grime and pencil, shellacked over, then cobwebbed again with another generation's imprint.

Chris Offutt

#5. To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Michael Sandel

#6. I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Thomas Paine

#8. The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Irving Babbitt

#9. Among other things, the catechism said: "Ill treatment of animals bears witness to a cruel and godless heart." The boy recited, "A hundred and eleven treatment of animals bears witness to a cruel and godless heart.

Halldor Laxness

#10. Basically, I wanted to get in, get on, get off, get up, get dressed and get out.

Megan Hart

#11. He pointed to a chair opposite him. "Sit." Another sip. "I'm hiding from commitment."
"Who's evil enough to name a girl that?" I asked, and sat down.

Isabelle Crusoe

#12. I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do a lot of television writing to develop new ideas for shows.

Jimmi Simpson

#13. You're like an idiot...trapped in an idiot's body!"

Hey it was funny at the time and level of intoxication.

Jedidiah Behe