Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes

My nerves are neither over- nor underwrought. They are wrought to the precise degree demanded by this situation.

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• I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• 'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Cool
  • Battle
  • Instinct

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Thinking
  • Segregation

• Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Done
  • Land
  • Village

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • Great
  • Literature

• Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Trying
  • America
  • Age

• I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

  

  Venus Williams
  • May
  • Think
  • Easy

• The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Great
  • Different
  • Always

• What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Long
  • Imagination

• My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got another deal at 26; that failed, and then I was broke.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Music
  • Real
  • Band

• Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Today

• Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Brain

• Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

  

  Meghan McCain
  • Needs
  • Matter
  • Washington

• I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Experiences
  • Generations
  • I Loved

• In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nerves

• We care for our children. And the most important thing is that we want them to achieve the highest degree of success.

  

  Paula Jones
  • Important
  • Children
  • Success

• I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

  

  Ayobami Adebayo
  • Expected
  • Degree
  • Middle-class

• My nerves are neither over- nor underwrought. They are wrought to the precise degree demanded by this situation.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Degree
  • Nerves
  • Demanded