Veit Quotes

#1. you can't always have what you want, and sometimes you're better off without it.

Len Levinson

#2. Why did people always get tangled up with other people? Why put ourselves through this shit?

J.D. Robb

#3. The city is a plague ... and I am the penicillin.

Jerry J.C. Veit

#4. Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.

Norman Cousins

#5. There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly ... finding meaning.

Jerry J.C. Veit

#6. It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

Macaulay Culkin

#7. When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

#8. Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. The world is small. Books make it bigger.

Jerry J.C. Veit

#10. Sophie and Charles did not live neatly, but neatness, Sophie thought, was not necessary for happiness.

Katherine Rundell

#11. There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals.

Dan Mathews

#13. If you don't have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it.

James S.A. Corey

#14. I've always been a writer.

Peter Coyote

#15. If absence makes the heart grow stronger, it also wounds in the process.

Claudette Melanson

#16. Yeah," I said. "You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics."
There are so many things I wish I hadn't said.

David Levithan

#17. I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Mark Bradford