"She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.'"

“Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.”

Source : Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner

“Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.”

“When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once I started to play music professionally, maybe it's from being from a small town, but you grow up and then you're suddenly a big fish in a small pond, and I realized that there were a billion other drummers out there that could play as good as you or better, and everybody wants that job.”

“We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.20, Penguin

“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.”

Source : "A long column about the length of movies" by Eric Snider, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

“Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.”

Source : "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

“Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.”

“I've been a Democrat all my life.”