Stephanie Perkins Quotes

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

Stephanie Perkins

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sound

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Boys
  • Conservative
  • Weight

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Good
  • Why
  • Black

• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Drunk

• I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Determination
  • Drunk

• If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Long
  • Live
  • Drunk

• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Life
  • Gratitude
  • Drunk

• I want to combine the NAACP with Mothers Against Drunk Driving. It's called Mothers Against the Advancement of Colored People.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Driving
  • Drunk

• By the mid-’90s, the anger at men had become so palpable that even sedate publications like The Economist were characterizing women’s vs. men’s workload as 'A woman’s work is never done; a man is drunk from sun to sun.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morningsAnd lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are soberAnd think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fastenTheir hands upon their hearts.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Men
  • Drunk

• The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.'

  

  Andrew Marr
  • People
  • Dream
  • Night

• Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Society
  • Dumb
  • Distress

• Well all week long I'm a real nobody,But I just punched out and its paycheck Friday,Weekends here, good God almighty,I'm going to get drunk and be somebody.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Good
  • God
  • Long

• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Poetry

• You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

  

  Dean Martin
  • Drunk

• I like boys with humor.

  

  Luisana Lopilato
  • Like
  • Humor
  • Boys

• If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Science
  • Understanding
  • Views

• Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

  

  Burton Raffel
  • Breath
  • Flames
  • Dragon

• Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Boys
  • Drunk
  • Scouts