“If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Responding to comedian Mark Critch pulling out a (prop?) marijuana joint in Justin Trudeau's office in 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/22/22-minutes-justin-trudeau-pot-video_n_4143431.html <br class="br">before leading Liberals
“If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist
Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard
Randy Pausch book The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008)
Variant: And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish.
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“You're going to break my heart, aren't you?”
Christopher Moore book Bloodsucking Fiends
Source: Bloodsucking Fiends
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Variant: Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Bloodfever
“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)