Stephen Chbosky Quotes

As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

Stephen Chbosky

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HeartYouKnowAthleteShyMean

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

Jill Lepore

WorkBetterInterestingDoingSkill

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

Meg Tilly

FriendsProblemBecomeFollowKitten

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would stop and look into the trash cans, and if there was a half a sandwich, I would take that sandwich and eat it. It was just a matter of survival. I didn't think much of it, but it was just the way things were.

Sugar Ray Leonard

WalkThinkSurvivalLookStopTrash

When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self.

RM

LoveThinkSelfLonelySayWant

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

Rocco DiSpirito

HomeTeamBookDownNiceOut

I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

Luke Bryan

LovePeopleCoolListeningKnowSay

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Jules Verne

LawCivilizationNeverNecessity

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Jude Law

HomeBackWrongGoKnowNice

When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

Jason Isbell

TimeQualityDayWritingThinkKind

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

Janos Bolyai

UniverseNewNothingStrangeOut

The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

Bruce Vilanch

MomentWorldYearMoviesGoingBeen

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

Atul Gawande

MedicineThinkBecomeMoreHandle

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