Tensie Whelan Quotes

#1. You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

Amy Jo Martin

#2. A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy.

Adam Richman

#4. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

Brandon Boyd

#6. One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

David Auburn

#7. Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must
As chimney sweepers come to dust

Pierce Brown

#8. I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Ruskin Bond

#9. Phoenix song is magical: it is reputed to increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the heart of the impure.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Chronic stress is linked to some of our most deadly diseases.

John J. Ratey

#11. One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.

Richard Norton Smith

#12. Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Financially, I do not need to work unless I want to, and whatever film I accept has to be right for me in the sense that it should justify the time I spend away from my husband and kids.

Kajol

#14. They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...

Franz Kafka