S.W. Collins Quotes
I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.
Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in.
Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.
I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.
As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.
That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13 hours. I make that an absolute rule and I always feel fresh afterwards and never have jet lag.
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.
We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.
A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
I don't like self-righteous people," I say. "What's to like?" says Haymitch, who begins sucking the dregs out of the empty bottles.
When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.