Shepard Quotes

Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show) ~ Sara Shepard

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life. ~ Sara Shepard

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist. ~ Shepard Fairey

I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself. ~ Jim Shepard

I didn't want to be morose. I didn't want to recoil from everything ~ Sara Shepard

Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love all that atmosphere and seeing people's mouths singing the words to the songs. ~ Vonda Shepard

Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray

I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them. ~ Sam Shepard

This doesn't mean you're damaged. It just means your mind has adapted to feelings of being unsafe. It's a coping mechanism ~ Sara Shepard

Had been keeping Diddy, his pet tarantula, in an empty terra-cotta pot Helmut used to grow tulips. Hanna's parents nervously stood up and walked over to the doctor. "Your daughter is still unconscious," Dr. Geist said quietly. "Not much has changed. ~ Sara Shepard

With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way. ~ Sara Shepard

Never say never
-A ~ Sara Shepard

You have to do good things for people you care about. ~ Sara Shepard

Hey!' she said, punching Hanna's arm hard. 'Where have you been, bitch? I've been looking all over for you! ~ Sara Shepard

She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen.
Even if it killed her. ~ Sara Shepard

I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy. ~ Dax Shepard

Once Shepard asked to Mahavatar Babaji, 'Where on earth is heaven or hell'? He said, 'there is no heaven or hell, those places were created by humans, the only place which supreme lord created was mother earth, those who know how to love themselves will know this truth.', poor Shepard started to love himself and was happy ever after. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy. ~ Sam Shepard

Life is hard. If we go with these feelings that are wrong, our lives are going to be even more of an uphill battle. things are hard enough, you know? Why make it worse? ~ Sara Shepard

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in ... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing. ~ Sam Shepard

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me. ~ Sam Shepard

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112 ~ Sara Shepard

Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?"
Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem ... loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat. ~ Sara Shepard

Detective Quinlan, I think I know who killed my sister."
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"That's interesting. I was just coming back here to tell you the same thing... Emma. ~ Sara Shepard

I've been off drugs and booze since I almost killed myself on speed two weeks ago. But my gratitude for being alive can't last for ever. ~ Johnny Dark

'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. ~ Sara Shepard

-Are you okay? he asked leaning slightly towards her.
-Don't I look okay?
-You look perfect as always. I asked how you felt. ~ Sara Shepard

The last man on the moon, Gene Cernan, had paused for a final look at the black beauty of the world about him. He had a message to send home before departing. "As I take these last steps from the surface for some time in the future to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And as we leave the moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." It's been nearly four decades since he spoke those words. No American, no earth being has yet returned to the moon. Sadly, no one will again for decades to come. ~ Alan Shepard

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right. ~ Alan Shepard

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side. ~ Sam Shepard

The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. ~ Jim Shepard

When Courtney appeared from the hallway, a whisper of a smile emerged on her eerily familiar face; Spencer's legs dissolved into Jell-O. Aria let out a small squeak. ~ Sara Shepard

I don't have a twin. That's impossible." - Sutton
"You do have a twin." - Becky ~ Sara Shepard

Words are tools of imagery in motion, ~ Sam Shepard

My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats. ~ Sara Shepard

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon. ~ Alan Shepard

SMALL BOY: Where do animals go when they die? SMALL GIRL: All good animals go to heaven, but the bad ones go to the Natural History Museum. - Caption to a drawing by E.H. Shepard, PUNCH, 1929 SIMON ~ Sarah R. Shaber

Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she'd found on Mr. Mercer's bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it'd work for her. ~ Sara Shepard

I hope that one day, my life will be different and richer, too, but from this vantage point, sitting here in this little room, it's so hard to know ~ Sara Shepard

I am not an actress. ~ Sara Shepard

Life is short. You've got to take what you can while you can. ~ Sara Shepard

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. ~ Sam Shepard

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret. ~ Sara Shepard

Two joggers passed, shoes cheerfully slapping against the pavement. ~ Sara Shepard

No wonder Emma didn't see me. No wonder I wasn't in the mirror. I wasn't really there.
I was dead.
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Emma stared at the girl's huge, blue eyes, slightly upturned nose, and round face. She looked exactly like her.
That was because the girl in the video was me. ~ Sara Shepard

We haven't officially met," she said softly. "I'm Charlotte Chamberlain. I'm very sorry for your loss."
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"I'm so sorry, Char," she whispered...
"We're sorry we didn't give you a chance to explain," Madeline said. ~ Sara Shepard

[ELLA] Oh! You know what Wes?

[WESLEY] What?

[ELLA] That story your father used to tell about that eagle. You remember the whole thing?

[WESLEY] Yeah.

[ELLA] I remember he keeps coming back and swooping down on the shed roof and then flying off again. What else?

[WESLEY] I don't know.

[ELLA] You remember. What happens next?

[WESLEY] A cat comes.

[ELLA] That's right. A big tomcat comes. He jumps up on top of that roof to sniff around in all the entails or whatever it was.

[WESLEY] And that eagle comes down and picks up that cat in his talons and carries him screaming off into the sky.

[ELLA] And they fight. They fight like crazy in the middle of the sky. The cat's tearing his chest out, and the eagle's trying to drop him, but the cat won't let go because he knows if he falls he'll die.

[WESLEY] And the eagle's being torn apart in midair. The eagle's trying to free himself from the cat, and the cat won't let go.

[ELLA] And they come crashing down to earth. Both of them come crashing down. Like one whole thing. ~ Sam Shepard

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M. ~ Vonda Shepard

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. ~ Alan Shepard

The scene was horrid, yet it had the purity of a stanza from a ballad come to life, a ballad composed about tragic events in some border hell. ~ Lucius Shepard

Same thing for the bad guy. People were really after this guy Radovan Karadicz. But I came up with a combination of several people, who then became The Fox. That's who Simon Hunt and Duck are after. I did that so I could have freedom with what The Fox said and did, so that I didn't have to be stuck. Certain things I wanted to stay to the truth. Certain things I changed, and certain things are the facts. ~ Richard Shepard

Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do an extra side project on unreliable narrators." Devon Arliss raised her hand. "what does that mean?" Ezra strode around the room. "well, the narrator tells us the story in the book, right? But what if ... the narrator isn't telling us the truth? Maybe he's telling us his skewed version of the story to get you on his side. Or to scare you. Or maybe he's crazy! ~ Sara Shepard

Girls fight much dirtier than boys ~ Sara Shepard

If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture. ~ Shepard Fairey

Maybe the best reputation is no reputation. Maybe it's best not to care whatsoever how people see you. Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself. ~ Sara Shepard

Cat love is genuine, because it's 10 percent devotion and 90 percent frustration and betrayal. - 67 REASONS WHY CATS ARE BETTER THAN DOGS ~ Jack Shepard

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original. ~ Shepard Fairey

Why don't you light that candle ? ~ Alan Shepard

We need a continuing presence in space. ~ Alan Shepard

You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up. ~ Dax Shepard

The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn't make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it's always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can't see right, and he's haunted by nearly everything. He's trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He's trying to make do with what he's done, while he reminds us that we're all, one way or another, in that position. ~ Jim Shepard

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons. ~ Sam Shepard

Emily felt the Vanilla Coke she was drinking fizz up her nose. ~ Sara Shepard

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. ~ Sam Shepard

Jenna can't hear us; she's blind ... You know what I mean ~ Sara Shepard

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. ~ Paul Shepard

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. ~ Sam Shepard

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing. ~ Sam Shepard

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now. ~ Shelley Shepard Gray

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible. ~ Paul Shepard

But what I did was the kind of thing you'd do and the kind of thing you've done: I felt bad for him and for myself and I went on with my week and then my summer and I started telling my story to whoever would listen. And my story was this: I survived camp. I survived my brother. I survived my own bad feelings. Love me for being so sad about it. Love me for knowing what I did. Love me for being in the lifeboat after everyone else went under. And my story made me feel better and it made me feel worse. And it worked. ~ Jim Shepard

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced. ~ Jim Shepard

There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning. ~ Sam Shepard

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. ~ Sam Shepard

At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much. ~ Vonda Shepard

I know you saw something. Why else would you guys run? - Mr. Mercer ~ Sara Shepard

people here have become the people they're pretending to be. ~ Sam Shepard

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence. ~ Sam Shepard

Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right?
Wesley: No.
Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?
Wesley: Yes.
Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you.
Wesley: Doesn't scare me.
Weston: No?
Wesley: No.
Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it?
Wesley: How?
Weston: Because I saw myself infected with it. That's how. I saw me carrying it around. His poison in my body. ~ Sam Shepard

You're right. We Mercer girls are alike... We're bitches you don't want to mess with. - Laurel, to Ethan ~ Sara Shepard

You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me. ~ Sam Shepard

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. ~ Sam Shepard

I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones. ~ Dax Shepard

The first step of any therapy is a little self-awareness. I want you to think about the ways your habits, your belief systems, your personality quirks have been developed to help you and protect you. Then ask yourself if they are truly working or if they're hurting you. For instance, when you feel a headache coming on, focus on something in front of you. Something real, like your hand, to keep you in the moment. It sounds small, but it helps, I promise. ~ Sara Shepard

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure. ~ Dax Shepard

Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies ... despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level. ~ Paul Shepard

How are we to become native to this land?"

(as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine) ~ Paul Shepard

Spencer." Mrs. Hastings leaned across the restaurant table. "Don't touch the bread. It's rude to start eating before everyone is seated. ~ Sara Shepard

...felt an unfamiliar sensation in her chest. After a moment, she realized what it was: happiness ~ Sara Shepard

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that. ~ Alan Shepard

Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission. ~ Sam Shepard

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth ~ Sara Shepard

Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break. ~ Vonda Shepard

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath. ~ Sara Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. ~ Alan Shepard

All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff? ~ Sam Shepard

Every spoof gives more power to the original. ~ Shepard Fairey

Before Ethan went all Incredible Hulk on Thayer's ass, the most exciting thing to happen was a spray-cheese fight some of the morons from the wrestling team got into on the back patio. ~ Sara Shepard

My stint with 'Ally McBeal' is something I never planned nor expected. ~ Vonda Shepard

Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal? ~ Shepard Fairey