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Sam Abell

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KELLY JONES You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ...
JOHN GREEN I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something abou...
JOHN GREEN So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We...
JOHN GREEN Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried abou...
JOHN GREEN Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
JOHN GREEN When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
JOHN GREEN We all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREEN Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be...
HOWARD ZINN This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?
JOHN GREEN Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.
EMMA RAVELING She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Since meeting with Mr. Pym was the responsibility of the current Lord Ramsay, Cam bullied Leo into a...
LISA KLEYPAS Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER When you stopped wishing things wouln't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did
JOHN GREEN The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room becaus...
JOHN GREEN Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY This one's for Alaska Young!
JOHN GREEN The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive
JOHN GREEN I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
JOHN GREEN The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to...
C. JOYBELL C. I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.
JOHN GREEN That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and fe...
JOHN GREEN But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
JOHN GREEN That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.
JOHN GREEN I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I...
JOHN GREEN How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
JOHN GREEN We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible be...
JOHN GREEN More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone
who...
JOHN GREEN Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.
'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I...
JOHN GREEN You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, ...
JOHN GREEN Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.
AULIQ ICE Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.
PATRICIA NEDELEA Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.
SOMAN CHAINANI Wait —” Sam said. “Have you seen Isabel yet?”
My fingers still felt the shape of her. �...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
JOHN GREEN Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.
JOHN GREEN You didn't sleep?"

"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like...
JOHN GREEN In life we all go through trials and tribulations. So now tell me, will you pass or will you make a ...
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that i...
JOHN GREEN I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.
JOHN GREEN .... I'm not gonna be one of those people who talk about what they're gonna do. I'm just gonna do it...
JOHN GREEN Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
-Alaska
JOHN GREEN Que je croie; que tu croies; qu'il ou qu'elle croie. What a funny thing to say over and over again: ...
JOHN GREEN In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,
JOHN GREEN Search for God, You will find HIM in Everything
JULIE JENIFER My kids are my ability to achieve my big dreams, not my disability. For those brief moments, I have ...
JANA KINGSFORD Walking with Daisy from the dining hall, Matthew murmured, “Will I have to scale the outside wall ...
LISA KLEYPAS It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
JAIME CONTRERAS Stop simply living for one tomorrow and live for all eternity!
ISAAC JOHN GERAMI I love you more than you love yourself! A fact you will never realize.
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
DANIEL KEYES You aren’t jealous that Agatha gets a boy and a crown and a kingdom and everything else?” Hort p...
SOMAN CHAINANI I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
JOHN GREEN After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose ...
JOHN GREEN I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
JOHN GREEN We are greater than the sum of our parts.
JOHN GREEN All for all, always.
MARTHA N. BECK Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN Young girls today are very mistaken to be thinking that their sense of self-worth and their acknowle...
C. JOYBELL C. I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
MARKUS ZUSAK Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
JOHN GREEN Sam has been phenomenal for us. She's an all-around great player.
HOLLY ISMAIL Go to church and get directions so you won’t get lost.
ELIZABETH B. KNAUS Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for ...
MARTINA BOONE Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three varieties - geography, autobiography, and metaphor. ...
ROBERT ADAMS There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacr...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what...
ALBERTO MANGUEL It's a strange thing, having a child," he said. It completely alters your most fundamental prioritie...
BARRY EISLER Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother...
CESAR MILLAN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there was
anything worth editi...
KAITLIN SCOTT The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.
SARAH NOFFKE A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing not...
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SAM ABELL A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
SAM ABELL It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
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SAM ABELL Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then."
RICHARD ABELL We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.
GARY ABELL That's why we're doing what we're doing.
GARY ABELL Every county gets money under this plan.
GARY ABELL What we plan to do with that money is fund our state highway new-construction program for the next 1...
GARY ABELL It's been a great ride.
JOHN ABELL It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound,
JOHN ABELL I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.
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DON ABELL Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the rig...
DON ABELL Family programs tend to be the ones the green-eyeshade people go after first.
CHARLES ABELL I hope, that in the end, we acknowledge that we should be advisers, mentors, teachers (and) coaches....
CHARLES ABELL It is mostly art; not so much science. It is, above all, influencing human behavior.
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SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up....
SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl...
SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
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SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
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SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
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SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
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SAM KEAN The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
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SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
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SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
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