Suctioned Quotes

#1. All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

Roger Ebert

#2. We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Paul Haggis

#3. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.

William Kent Krueger

#4. - a man looking at reality brings his own limitations to the world.

John Steinbeck

#5. You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Horace

#7. It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.

Wilferd Peterson

#9. Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.

Elie Tahari

#10. This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people's approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love.

Madonna Ciccone

#11. One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined.
(page 125, Chapter 9, Graeme Galton)

Graeme Galton

#12. I have decided to stick to love ... Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long ... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle.

Rhea Perlman

#14. Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

Steve Blank

#15. On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

Scott Spencer