"Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them."

-- Margaret Haddix

#Waiting Quotes

“What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.”

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.
“If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.”
“I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Shooting the “Beast”; Jonathan Glazer Tames the Gangster Genre". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2001.
“I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.”
“Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.”
“If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.141
“Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant....”

Source : Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.102, Spiegel & Grau
“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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