Catherine Gilbert Murdock Quotes

Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

• Moments
• Reason
• Sleep
• Sometimes
• Winning
• Scared
• People Sleep

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Life
  • Time
  • College

• Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Look

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Voice

• I write emotional music.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Music
  • Emotional

• Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Power
  • Today
  • Powerful

• It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Exercise

• Uber is a good car service, and that's exactly what they were when we launched.

  

  Logan Green
  • Good
  • Car
  • Service

• Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Believe
  • Different

• I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

  

  Charles Saatchi
  • Theatre

• What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

  

  Debra Granik
  • Life
  • Different
  • History

• Wonder is the first of all the passions.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Wonder
  • First
  • Passions

• My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Job
  • Together
  • Movie

• I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Career
  • Winning

• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Together
  • Sleep
  • Marriage

• Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.

  

  David Goggins
  • Sleep
  • Failure
  • Option

• Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Sleep