Tim Sandlin Quotes

#1. People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

Julianne Moore

#2. Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

Tim Sandlin

#3. Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

Bill Plympton

#4. Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.

Tim Sandlin

#5. When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

Tony Cleaver

#6. Those who appeared to be victims were always the easiest to victimize.

Morgan Rhodes

#7. Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

Tim Sandlin

#8. Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Tim Sandlin

#9. The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Tim Sandlin

#10. Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Tim Sandlin

#11. Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Tim Sandlin

#12. Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Tim Sandlin

#13. Life's hard and when you know there are ways to drown it out, it's hard to stay on the right path. It's a constant struggle. For a long time, I did it by myself.

Lisa De Jong

#14. Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes ... and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

Tim Sandlin

#15. Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

Tim Sandlin

#16. Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Tim Sandlin

#17. Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Tim Sandlin

#18. A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Thomas Aquinas

#19. For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It's a pleasure to put myself against him and when I finish my career it's something I can look back on and know I've tested myself against the very best.

John Terry

#20. People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

Mario Van Peebles

#21. Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

Tim Sandlin

#22. Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word ... which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Tim Sandlin