Thumper's Mom Quotes

#1. Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Agnes De Mille

#2. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.

Natalie Goldberg

#3. I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

Walter Legge

#4. Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Michael Arndt

#5. Actually it's this easy to explain: When your time's up ... poof ... your time is up!

Timothy Pina

#6. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Shirley Jackson

#7. LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.

Frank Quattrone

#8. I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Barack Obama

#9. I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.

Mike Mignola

#10. I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

Beverly Cleary

#11. If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#12. The world is complicated,' she added. 'You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

Will Schwalbe

#13. The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

Merle Shain

#14. Gorky called for the building of a monument to the young martyr, who, the writer said, had 'understood that a relative by blood may also be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared'.69

Orlando Figes

#15. Damn straight I do," Jude said, grabbing my waist and lifting me into the cab. "Tell him my girl comes before football. Tell him my girl's breakfast comes before football.

Nicole Williams