Ximena Quotes

#1. But realizing that Ximena Chin, under her layers and layers and layers of snarkiness and mischief, could actually be kind of sweet. When she wasn't being kind of mean.

R.J. Palacio

#2. As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

Monica Seles

#3. I just don't feel like you can have enough speed pass rushers on your club.

Pete Carroll

#4. For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you're a sorry state of affairs.

Elizabeth Bear

#5. If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

Cindy Sheehan

#6. She was too well acquainted with the way things work in real life. Real life sucked. But it was real. It was unapologetic. It made no excuses. It just was.

Maya Banks

#7. It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immanuel Kant

#8. A misstep many make: they mistake darkness for meaning. They think light is easy. They think light will find a way through the crack in the door by itself. But it doesn't - you have to open the door & let it in.

Melanie Gideon

#9. Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. Comparing Ferran with Heston or Grant makes no
more sense than comparing three painters because
they buy the same brand of brushes. - Jeffrey Steingarten

Grant Achatz

#11. I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008.

Phil Klay

#12. Say, Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. But what do I know of real people or the world, considering my strange existence?

Dean Koontz

#13. As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#14. I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

Paris Hilton

#15. America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Malcolm X

#16. I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

Josh Henderson