“What kind of a dork uses a lame stage name anyway? And why Shade? Because he wears sunglasses all the time?"
"Yeah, he has to wear them. He has vision problems.."
Melanie's stomach dropped and she covered her big, blabbering mouth with one hand. "He does? Shit. Now I feel bad."
The guy chuckled. "I'm just fucking with you. He wears them because he enjoys looking like a douche twenty-four seven.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
“My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
“Just tell me one more personal thing about yourself. I’m much more comfortable with Gabe than I am with Force.”
“Force equals mass times acceleration,” he said.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
“What else makes you hot?" You asking what makes me hot makes me hot.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
“Let's see what you've got, Dr. Kink E. Inventor”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
“Rock stars live too fast for the twenty-four hour rule... Our average life expectancy is equal to one-half normal divided by number of addictions minus the number of small craft flights per month, the number of fast cars owned, and the number of miles driven on a motorcycle without a helmet. I'd say the three-second rule better applies...”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
Olivia Cunning
Born place: in The United States
Born date August 13, 2018
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“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness—even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile—reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined—those dead, those living, those generations yet to come—that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands. Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength—to the very survival of the human tapestry. Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from From the Corner of His Eye
“Threats betray the speaker by proving that he has failed to influence events in any other way. Most often they represent desperation, not intention.”
― Gavin de Becker, quote from The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“She's thinking I betrayed her, and she's thinking it now! I can't live with that.”
― Frederik Pohl, quote from Gateway
“Yakında kendi kişiliklerimizden ve kişiselliklerimizden korkmaya başlayacağız, çünkü onların hiç de sonuna kadar bizim olmadıkları, bizler için apaçık olacak. Ve “Ben buna inanıyorum – ben bunu hissediyorum – ben böyleyim – ben bunu savunuyorum,” diye bağırıp çağırmak yerine, yumuşak başlıkla “Beni buna inandırıyor ki – bana bunu hissettiriyor ki – bana bunu söyletti, yaptırdı, düşündürdü ki,” diyeceğiz. Ozan kendi şarkısını hor görecek. Önder kendi buyruğu karşısında zangır zangır zangırdayacak. Rahip sunaktan ürkecek ve anne de oğluna sadece ilkeleri değil, fakat onu boğmasınlar diye onları atlatabilme becerisini de aşılayacak.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Ferdydurke
“People don't want reasons to do what they'd like to. They want excuses.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Theatre
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