Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger. . . secretly, in my room.
Any obsession is dangerous.
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan]. And because I felt safe, Sam[L. Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.
Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.
We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength.