Somebody Quotes (page 23)

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• inspirational
• life
• your life

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. Frank Zappa

• running
• world
• choices

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important. Sidney Sheldon

• career
• imagination
• saying

Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered. Doug Coupland

• loss
• eating
• dumb

Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean. Carson McCullers

• light
• thinking
• thinking you

You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey.... Vicki Lawrence

• nice
• gets
• excites

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice. J. D. Salinger

• lost
• leaving
• friend

in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me... David Foster Wallace

• house
• old
• saying

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. Harry S. Truman

• tastes
• wallet
• ya

It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know? Gerard Way

• imagination
• wonder
• quality

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. Zelda Fitzgerald

• skin
• needing
• skins

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning. Louis L'Amour

• time
• choices
• moving

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. Diane Arbus

• forget
• forgetful
• soon

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how Dave Barry

• personality
• giving
• hand

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. Sue Monk Kidd

• waste
• value
• inspirational

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. William Shakespeare