Ned Vizzini Quotes

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

Ned Vizzini

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• The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Thought

• Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Why
  • Want
  • Grief

• Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Why
  • Rich

• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

  Adam Green
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Way

• Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

  

  Tacitus
  • Up

• Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Law
  • Desire

• In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Work
  • Night
  • Study

• You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Technology
  • Everyday
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm not very glamorous.

  

  Freema Agyeman

• I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to go for the health field, where there were stable jobs.

  

  Dascha Polanco
  • Life
  • School
  • Done

• Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

  

  Allison Janney
  • Great
  • Drama

• The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Nature
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Money
  • Together

• Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them.

  

  Leslie Bibb
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Weird

• So far in my career, I've achieved what I've achieved because I've believed that I could do it. And I've never believed that anyone's better than me, because I think when you start doing that, you've already lost the fight.

  

  Carmen Marton
  • Career
  • Lost

• Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.

  

  Aaron David Miller
  • Results
  • Approach
  • Insanity

• Well I wasn't going to die. You didn't die of a broken heart, it just felt like you were going to. I knew from personal experience that if you just kept moving, acting as if you weren't bleeding inside you didn't die, and eventually you stopped wanting to.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Die

• You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Reading
  • Choices
  • Eye

• I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Feels
  • Broken
  • Awful