Ned Vizzini Quotes

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

Ned Vizzini

• Feels
• Broken
• Awful
• Useless

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Having children with someone is the real bond.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Children
  • Real
  • Parenting

• 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 have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.

  

  Luke Perry
  • She
  • Business
  • Girlfriend

• 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

• I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I had kind of had a tumultuous upbringing living in an abusive home, so for me, writing has always been a point of catharsis.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Writing
  • Home

• Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Different
  • Trying
  • She

• The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

  

  Moses Hadas
  • Quality
  • Audience
  • Taste

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• … It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Broken

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

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Feels
  • Broken
  • Awful