Unstick Glasses Quotes

#1. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Dale Carnegie

#2. I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it.

Samuel Butler

#3. The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#4. Yes," I clipped out, "I know. Hurt happens."
I heard that long, weary exhalation.
"It does. That's life. It's the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the wins and the losses. I never thought you'd be too afraid to try. I though you were stronger than that.

Josh Lanyon

#5. Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.

M. Russell Ballard

#6. A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#7. Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

#8. The stars dehisce.
By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,
and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.
A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Ben Lerner

#9. When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#10. Who's to say who's an expert?

Paul Newman

#11. As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.

Lesley Gore

#12. When one person yells the other should listen. When two people yell, there's no communication.

Dale Carnegie

#13. But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

John Cleese