S.W. Collins Quotes

It starts at midnight.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

Anyone who loves the concept of Zero Harm obviously has nothing to love

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.

I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

Your only defense can be you were so madly in love you weren't responsible for your actions.

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

Better not to give in to it.

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.

But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.

Why am I hopping around like some trained dog trying to please people I hate?

I'm not trying to say that I'm sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it's just nice to do something different.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

I am completely Socratic.

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

I look coolly in to the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

If I'm going to die, I want to still be me

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.