Kellin Quinn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
-
The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
-
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
-
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
-
I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
-
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
-
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
-
When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
-
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
-
What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
-
Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.
-
I am really blessed and very grateful for it.
-
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
-
You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
-
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
-
Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
-
I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
-
I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
-
It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.
-
And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
-
For the Buddha and Early Buddhism, this is above all the defining crisis at the heart of the human condition: we are bound to a chain of rebirths, and bound to it by nothing other than our own ignorance and craving. The pointless wandering on in saṃsāra occurs against a cosmic background of inconceivably vast dimensions. The period of time that it takes for a world system to evolve, reach its phase of maximum expansion, contract, and then disintegrate is called a kappa (Skt: kalpa), an eon.
-
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
-
One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in their own show. It's only as the show goes on that you realize how they interconnect. They're all moving towards one another inexorably, to meet at a certain point.
-
I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.
