CJ Quinn Quotes

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

You can’t make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

There is no one right way to live.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.