Unpacked Standards Quotes

#1. When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Dave Chappelle

#2. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

#3. A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

John Keats

#4. I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet.

Andrew Luck

#5. God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#6. You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Casey Stengel

#7. The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

Anna Akhmatova

#8. Go on all the rides

Scott Mackey

#9. I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Laura Hillenbrand

#10. When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

Eoin Colfer

#11. I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#12. Nine games? It's too long.

Derek Jeter

#13. Felicity, if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding, flavoured with needles, you'll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle, said Uncle Roger reproachfully.

L.M. Montgomery