Surmounter Quotes

#1. The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Colin Wilson

#2. No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world can go to hell.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Gifts become curses when they're not given their due respect.

Dannika Dark

#4. What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

Matt Taibbi

#5. There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she had for her life are endangered. It is then she must declare herself a refuge and take whatever measures to preserve her natural elements."--Portion of the Sea

Christine Lemmon

#6. We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

David Karp

#7. I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

Larry Wilmore

#8. I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening.

Isabel Gillies

#9. I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

Colleen Atwood

#10. I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

Alexa Chung

#11. The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

Kevin D. Williamson

#12. All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

George Jean Nathan

#13. 'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Will Chase

#14. You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.

Alan King