Top 100 To Fink Quotes
#1. In other news, a man in a tan jacket, holding a deerskin suitcase, was seen. I don't remember anything about him or why this was news, but it had seemed important a the time. I wrote it down: 'Say the important thing about the man in the tan jacket.' What was it? What was I supposed to say?
Joseph Fink
#2. Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.
Sheri Fink
#3. Sorry, listeners. I need to go make sure she's all right. I take you now to the sound of a human stomach digesting, heavily amplified and electronically distorted.
Joseph Fink
#4. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.
Joseph Fink
#5. I'd done a big movie that I wasn't happy with, and I was moving out of London when I got approached about Barton Fink, because my agent said the brothers were in London. We hit it off immediately, and suddenly I found myself on the way to America!
Roger Deakins
#6. How do you say everything you've wanted to say to a person who has been a big part of your life and doesn't know you at all? "Diane,
Joseph Fink
#7. If you like a thing, and only one place in town serves that thing, you're going to be pretty excited by that thing, regardless of quality.
Joseph Fink
#8. It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler.
Joseph Fink
#9. Our dreams are expressions of our inner beauty. I've learned that it's completely okay to want whatever you want.
Sheri Fink
#10. What?' Diane was enjoying listening to Cecil. She loved the end of his show, when he said, 'Good night, Night Vale, good night.' No matter how difficult her life was or how troublesome the news he was reporting, his voice and his sign-off put her at such ease.
Joseph Fink
#11. Imagine teaching a fifteen-year-old how to drive a car with manual transmission. First, you have to press down the clutch. Then you have to whisper a secret into one of the cup holders.
Joseph Fink
#12. When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.
Sheri Fink
#13. They are asking that everyone dress up as the decline of the printed word in a society reverting to a state of brainless animality.
Joseph Fink
#14. He was looking toward Diane. He was not looking at Diane, but in her vicinity. She could see his pupils. They were not dilated. They were dots. He was looking toward Diane, but his glance seemed to stop just short of where Diane was. He was smiling.
Joseph Fink
#15. The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.
Sheri Fink
#16. I love you," she called, hoping it wasn't too late. "I love you too," he said back, not loudly enough to be heard.
Joseph Fink
#17. Maybe she had come into existence seconds ago and had made up every moment until this moment to explain how she came to be sitting in this booth in this diner.
Joseph Fink
#18. This is Night Vale. Our mayor once led an army of masked warriors from another dimension through magic doors to defeat an army of smiling blood-covered office workers. There is definitely, definitely another way.
Joseph Fink
#19. Maybe you're too young to understand this, but you don't just run after people because you want to know what their deal is.
Joseph Fink
#20. Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
Cecil Baldwin
#21. But what does the "greatest good" mean when it comes to medicine? Is it the number of lives saved? Years of life saved? Best "quality" years of life saved? Or something else?
Sheri Fink
#22. Her mother had called, and being a good daughter was as convenient an excuse as any. Anything to avoid the library.
Joseph Fink
#23. The moon is a trick of light suggested to us by the seas, the house thought.
Joseph Fink
#24. Fink had a full bowl and grinned at me as he sat back on the bench. "It would help if you used words like 'please' and 'thank you.'"
"Then I'll thank you to please stay out of my business.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#25. In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.
Sheri Fink
#26. I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.'
Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers.
Wendy Mass
#27. It's nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn't trapped in a hovering prison in the men's bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.
Cecil Baldwin
#28. The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
Orson Scott Card
#29. And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes.
Cecil Baldwin
#30. Reports also indicate that the Night Vale Private Library will be entirely free of librarians, a fact that will be of little comfort to the many public library-goers who are injured or killed in librarian maulings every year.
Joseph Fink
#31. Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.
Joseph Fink
#32. Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.
Joseph Fink
#33. One death has already been attributed to the Glow Cloud.
But listen, it's probably nothing. If we had to shut down the town for every mysterious event that at least one death could be attributed to, we'd never have time to do anything, right?
Joseph Fink
#34. To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.
Joe Carnahan
#35. Today Jackie was following the Troy who was a loan manager at the Last Bank of Night Vale ('We put our customers second, and our apocalyptic prophecies first!'). This Troy had very regular hours, not just at his work but in his life outside of work, and so he was especially easy to tail.
Joseph Fink
#36. To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.
Laurence D. Fink
#37. I'd love to do film and soundtracks, and you couldn't do much better than James Bond.
Charlie Fink
#38. Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.
Joseph Fink
#39. People often found themselves assenting to inanimate objects in the Moonlite All-Nite.
Joseph Fink
#40. The only other car in the lot was a silver pickup. Full-size. Well worn. Long. The windows gray with dried dirt. She had seen it many times. It belonged to John Peters (you know, the farmer?).
Joseph Fink
#41. To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in the desert when it is gone.
Joseph Fink
#42. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!
Dr. Todd M. Fink
#43. You sound like a tree. You are perfectly healthy. Also, you don't need to sleep. You're a tree, a very very smart tree. Are you listening to the radio? Is a human assisting you? What plan do you have for our weak species? Please, tree, I beg of you to spare me. Please, tree. Spare me.
Joseph Fink
#44. We all chose to stand down and hope change would be won for us, and not by us. By someone else, we believed. A hero, we believed.
But belief is only step one. Action is step two. Fighting for what you believe is step two. Solidarity is step two. Unity is step two.
Joseph Fink
#45. With introductions out of the way, Erick got down to the business of having abducted me.
"Why were you asking Fink about the priest?"
"I have some sins to confess," I said. "For ruining the life of the last man to kidnap me.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#46. If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
Sheri Fink
#47. Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.
Charlie Fink
#48. She continued to look out the window for a moment, her humanity and thoughtfulness tucked away inside a tight frown, an honest brushstroke in a boring painting.
Joseph Fink
#49. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
#50. Sometimes the ethical - the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them.
Sheri Fink
#51. I don't know who I am and I don't understand the progression of time as it relates to me," said Jackie. Leann nodded. "We've all been there.
Joseph Fink
#52. There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.
Sheri Fink
#54. But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.
Sheri Fink
#55. As they stepped outside into the sandy dusk, the bell on the door jingled faintly in Jackie's mind like a favorite song to which she could no longer quite remember the tune.
Joseph Fink
#56. She drove home and grabbed the things she would need to check out a book: strong rope and a grappling hook, a compass, a flare gun, matches and a can of hair spray, a sharpened wooden spear, and, of course, her library card.
Joseph Fink
#57. None of us knows what we want to do when we're his age. When we're your age, when you're my age," said Diane, "any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we're right, but only ever in retrospect." Her
Joseph Fink
#58. The search for truth takes us to dangerous places," said Old Woman Josie. "Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library. You know who said that? No? George Washington did. Minutes before librarians ate him.
Joseph Fink
#59. I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.
Tony Shalhoub
#60. I'm just tired of being disappointed by guys. I don't understand it. A breakup via text??!!" "I know. He's not playing the game of life on the same level as you. He's not even in the same sport. And it's better to know it now.
Sheri Fink
#61. Fink, boasted to The Wichita Eagle in 2012, "I think that's actually one of the things that happened at the Obama administration, is that every rock they overturned, they saw people who were against it, and it turned out to be us.
Jane Mayer
#62. Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.
Joseph Fink
#63. The differential diagnosis of catatonia According to an old story, there are three different types of baseball umpires. The first says: "I call them lballs and strikes] as they are"; the second says: "I call them as I see them"; and the third says: "What I call them is what they become.
Max Fink
#64. see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity I extend an apology and retract my sanguinary execration.
Joseph Fink
#65. Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#66. Sometimes it is easy to forget which things in the world can feel pain and which cannot.
Joseph Fink
#67. Who can fathom the danger and pain of a visit to the City Council?
Joseph Fink
#68. Despite the request, and the fact that executives from some Tenet hospitals, like Atlanta, had already expressed a willingness to provide evacuation support, Tenet officials continued to rely on governmental resources to respond to the emergency.
Sheri Fink
#69. It will be difficult to help if you create a Culture of No, Diane.
Joseph Fink
#70. I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.
Laurence D. Fink
#71. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
Joseph Fink
#72. She laughs a little and admits to him, "I've never eaten in the bathtub before." He smiles. "Feels fun and a little scandalous, huh?
Sheri Fink
#73. When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.
Charlie Fink
#74. Because I've been around guys like that my whole life. He will always be a little boy who acts like a dog. Guys don't really change who they are at their core. Even if he wanted to, it would be a completely uphill battle, and he's not man enough for the journey.
Sheri Fink
#75. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.
Joseph Fink
#76. For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.
Charlie Fink
#77. A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.
Sheri Fink
#78. For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.
Bruce Fink
#79. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Joseph Fink
#80. Taking a shower often solved problems for her. She would find herself with thoughts that seemed to come from outside her, thoughts that would question decisions or offer suggestions or just consider life hazily in a way that made it seem like the thoughts could not possibly be her own.
Joseph Fink
#81. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.
Joseph Fink
#82. To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.
Joseph Fink
#83. Of course, angels do not exist. It is illegal to consider their existence, or even to give them a dollar when they forget bus money and start hovering around the Ralphs asking for change.
Joseph Fink
#84. The reading area was a beautifully crafted trap set by the librarians, but it was too perfect. Even the dumbest book lover - and anyone who would regularly choose to come in contact with books could not be a bright bulb, Jackie thought - wouldn't fall for this.
Joseph Fink
#85. when Cecil talked it was possible to let some of that go. To let go of the worries. To let go of the questions. To let go of letting or going.
Joseph Fink
#86. Looking for a snack? Try wheat or a wheat by-product. Dinner? Wheat &/or its by-product. Trying to patch a leaky roof? We have just the thing for you, and we also have its by-product.
Joseph Fink
#87. Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!
Sheri Fink
#88. had felt good to have someone explicitly value something that she did.
Joseph Fink
#89. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.
Joseph Fink
#90. Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
Harlan Ellison
#91. Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.
Joseph Fink
#92. Fear is a reasonable response to life.
Joseph Fink
#93. When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
Laurence D. Fink
#94. failed to yield to hooded figures, resulting in mandatory citywide ennui for hours.
Joseph Fink
#95. When deciding whether or not to go for your dream, remember that you don't need a bigger net, you just need bigger wings.
Sheri Fink
#96. No,' she shouted. She shouted it over and over because she didn't know what she could do to change anything and at least shouting made her feel better. No one could hear except the house and the faceless old woman who secretly lives in it.
Joseph Fink
#97. LAUREN: We will also fill in the giant hole out back of the Ralphs.
CECIL: But where will the people who huddle there go to huddle?
Joseph Fink
#98. You still need to work on a lot of things," Diane did not say. "I'm sorry your father isn't here," she also did not say. "But I am trying so, so hard. I am, Josh. I am, I am, I am," she did not say. As far as things go, her self-control was pretty good.
Joseph Fink
#99. There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting than doing that same quiet action in parallel with fellow humans doing the same action, everyone alone next to each other.
Joseph Fink
#100. Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!
Sheri Fink
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