"Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything."

-- Erica Jong

#Cheerful Quotes

“All truths wait in all things.”
“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.”
“Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea”
“It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.”
“..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.”
“At my house I have a full-size time machine that Iâ€™ve built over a couple of years... I love looking at peopleâ€™s faces when they walk into my office. Theyâ€™re literally astounded.”

Source : "Brains, Blood, and BBQ: Welcome to Greg Nicotero’s Zombie School". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. March 2014.
“some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.”
“Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!”

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