Trent Adams Quotes

I'm going to touch you now," Trent whispered, "but you are going to have to keep perfectly still if you don't want us to topple out ~ S.J. Higgins

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. ~ Franklin Pierce Adams

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives. ~ John Quincy Adams

LEONATO
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.
BEATRICE
Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ~ William Shakespeare

I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives me limitless opportunity to study the human condition, and a love story with a positive ending always lifts my spirits and warms my heart. ~ Jennie Adams

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. ~ Trent Parke

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads. ~ Gerry Adams

Belief is only the beginning ... ~ Stephanie Adams

I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous. ~ Amy Adams

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. ~ Ansel Adams

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ~ Richard Adams

Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance. ~ William A. Adams

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English. ~ Scott Adams

With the world securely in order, Dain was able to devote the leisurely bath time to editing his mental dictionary. He removed his wife from the general category labeled "Females" and gave her a section of her own. He made a note that she didn't find him revolting, and proposed several explanations: (a) bad eyesight and faulty hearing, (b)a defect in a portion of her otherwise sound intellect, (c) an inherited Trent eccentricity, or (d) an act of God. Since the Almighty had not done him a single act of kindness in at least twenty-five years, Dain thought it was about bloody time, but he thanked his Heavenly Father all the same, and promised to be as good as he was capable of being. ~ Loretta Chase

There's terrible evil in the world."
It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. ~ Richard Adams

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form. ~ Trent Reznor

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ~ Henry Adams

Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering with our lives on a daily basis. The evidence is all around us. I'm talking about how every time we make an insurance claim we discover that somehow mysteriously the exact thing we're claiming for is now precisely excluded from our policy. ~ Douglas Adams

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. ~ Patrick J. Adams

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God. ~ Trent Lott

Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt. ~ Scott Adams

If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.' ~ Douglas Adams

Ford was humming something. it was just one note repeated at intervals. He was hoping that somebody would ask him what he was humming, but nobody did. if anybody had asked him he would have said he was humming the first line of a Noel Coward song called "Mad About the Boy" over and over again. it would then have been pointed out to him that he was only singing one note, to which he would have replied that for reasons that he hoped would be apparent, he was omitting the "About the Boy" bit. he was annoyed that nobody asked. ~ Douglas Adams

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas. ~ Scott Adams

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?" said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. "Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin. "No, doesn't work. Never mind. ~ Douglas Adams

I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset. ~ Sandy Adams

If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do mean Atheist. I really do not believe that there is a god - in fact I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously. It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy-washy Anglicanism to vague wishy-washy Agnosticism - both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much. ~ Douglas Adams

If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system. ~ Scott Adams

And Trent," I said, watching Rex since Jenks was preoccupied with a flightless child. "Beloved city son and idiot billionaire goes and gets caught in the ever-after. Who has to bust her butt and make a deal with demons to get him back?"
"The one who got him there?" Jenks said, and my eyes narrowed. ~ Kim Harrison

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle. ~ Richard Dawkins

I was everybody's little boyfriend when I was younger. It's all good. It's just love, you know. I'll take the love. Give it to me. ~ Brandon Adams

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year. ~ John Adams

If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure. ~ Scott Adams

Sin - plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam's downfall - is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label. ~ Billy Graham

Be okay about the things you do not understand. In fact, embrace the uncertainty, but do not allow it to bring you down. It is okay not to know how a situation will turn out. You may not have control over it. But you do have control over your attitude with it. ~ Mike C. Adams