S.W. Collins Quotes

I've always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I've never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn't consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.

Never once does Snow White herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.

I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an all-time favorite.

Peeta bakes. I hunt. Haymitch drinks until the liquor runs out.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

No one here likes a wet dog.