“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.” BodyBigsMotivationalTurnsNextLike YouRevolutionSkillsTrainYour BodyBoardsGymPublic Health Author:Dan Harris
“It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it.” KnowsFirstsLooksKindPersonsMomentsNextGoneSeeingLike YouLateFirst TimeRecognitionToo LateSecondsRomantic LoveMost RomanticBeautiful RomanticRomantic CoupleRomantic Person Author:Elmore Leonard
“You know what we can be like: see a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains have us married with kids, the following minute we see him having an extramarital affair. By the time someone says, 'I'd like you to meet Cecil,' we shout, 'You're late again with the child support!'” ThinkingKnowsChildrenKidsGuyNextBrainSupportMinutesLike YouLateMarriedAffairFollowingCuteOne Minute Author:Cynthia Heimel
“The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'” FirstsArtSchoolRememberNightGirlNextWishPartyMorningNiceStudentsLike YouFlatsAll NightLiverpoolArt SchoolNice GirlCynthia Author:George Harrison
“Even if you feel like your debt is just never going to go away, think long and hard before declaring bankruptcy. Declaring bankruptcy means that getting a loan for anything will be next to impossible for the next 10 years.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsMeanLongHardNextImpossibleLike YouDebtGoing AwayLoanBankruptcyDeclaring Author:Alexa Von Tobel
“I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.” LooksKindDifferentNextLiteratureDifficultWonderDoorsStudentsColorLike YouPerformingDifferent KindsFar AwayLike YourselfDifferent Colors Author:Chinua Achebe
“Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, 'When I'm the head coach of the Eagles, I'm going to make sure I get that guy on my team.' And then guy next to me was like, 'You're only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Minor details. But it's going to work.'” SaidFunnyGuyNextWorryTeamLike YouYeahDetailsCoachesNflMinorsOffensiveGoing To WorkEaglesThat GuyHampshireNew HampshireHead CoachesCoordinator Author:Chip Kelly
“Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.” LastsNextSoundCareersLike YouRadioLaptops Author:Pharoahe Monch
“Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.” LongTwoNextLostMemoriesEnemyMinutesWorstLike YouHugWorst EnemyOne MinuteLost Friend Book:Tomorrow River Source: Tomorrow River
“I'm very jealous of actors that swoop in for 20 days, and then swoop back out. When you're a director, you're on that train for the next two years, so you best love it like you've never loved anything, ever.” YearsTwoNextActorsLike YouDirectorsTrainTwo YearsJealousBest Love Author:Francesca Gregorini
“It's OK to feel crappy sometimes and it's OK to feel like you don't look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It's important to know that.” KnowsFeelsLooksPersonsImportantSometimesBeautifulNextStrongLike YouWorth ItYou Are Beautiful Author:Jordin Sparks
“As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.” ThinkingFirstsIdeasWarReasonSeemsNextHouseFeltInformationLike YouCitizensFirst TimeDown AndIraqConnectedNeighborBurningLogicalBurnedNext DayBurning Down Author:Christopher Durang
“I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to.” WantKidsTodayYoungNextGamesLevelsLike YouBelieverVideoConquerFirmThe Next One Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“It's a balance. Like, we are shooting the big car chase at the end and it's me with everybody. And I got my stunt coordinator who shot some stuff and I'm like, you are right next to me, why don't we do it together.” EndsBigsTogetherNextStuffCarLike YouBalanceShotsShootingCoordinatorBig Cars Author:George Tillman, Jr.
“I do believe there's been a lull of slasher films. There have been a few that I guess would fall under the genre of slasher. Like You're Next, which I thought was fun. There have been a few really good slasher films, but for the most part, that's sort of died away at the moment.” BelieveHas BeensMomentsFilmFallNextFunLike YouDiedGenreLulls Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.” PeopleWorldYearsKindHardShowsMovingNextLosesAttentionLike YouYears AgoTwentiesFifteenYoutube Author:Gary LeVox
“We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?” MeanI CanUseEyeAgeBeautifulSongNextOpportunityEnergyFeltStuffLike YouWallToolsWindowOvercomingWeightWake UpAwakeningRealizationNext DayBreaking Down Author:Chuck Ragan
“I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.” WaySeemsNextNamesCommonRocksExpressionLike YouOne WayRock MusicUncommon Author:Dan Bejar
“One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.” YearsMightNextGenerationsLike YouResponding Author:Alec Baldwin
“Serve your neighbors (like your next-door neighbors). It's a good way to get to know them better and show them what Jesus is about.” KnowsWayShowsNextJesusDoorsLike YouNeighborGood WayNext Door Neighbors Author:Matt Hammitt
“In publishing books and winning awards, it's like you've enjoyed this meal, you know, two months ago. How long can you be nourished by thinking about it? You've already ingested it, and you've excreted it, and that was two months ago. You had this fabulous meal. It's not going to keep you satiated today. You have to go out and get your next meal. For me, that's writing. I have to go out and hunt my next meal.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLongTwoBookTodayNextWinningLike YouMonthsEnjoyedMealsAwardsPublishingFabulousHuntsTwo MonthsPublishing BooksWinning Awards Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I read reviews, I'm not going to lie to y'all. Like you know, I'll read 'em, but then, the next day I'm able to sort of shrug them off. But if something sort of sticks the next day, there's probably something to it. I just sort of really try to trust my gut on, on all that stuff.” IfsKnowsTryingAbleLyingNextStuffLike YouSticksGutsEmsReviewsNext Day Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“It's really an interesting crazy world where like ultimately you have to work your ass off and sacrifice a lot in your life and the end goal is personal and financial gain. You know, it's not like you're doing anything helpful to the world. You're really just trying to get ahead and to beat out the next person and to be on top and at the very top of those financial firms, like the people that make the crazy amounts of money I mean that's what their after.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingMeanPersonsEndsNextGoalInterestingSacrificeCrazyLike YouAmountBeatsGainsFinancialAssFirmHelpfulGet AheadCrazy World Author:Dane DeHaan
“I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.” IfsImportantPlayShowsWantedSongGirlNextGrowingHeardMinutesNew YorkLike YouGrewTasteGrew UpTheaterMusicalHip HopPopsHipsHopsRitualTapeCdsShowing OffI Like YouPop SongMatingMusical TheaterCassettesHip Hop Song Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda
“The minute you're offered another option, you're like, "You mean, I can watch this every week, if I want to, or twice this week, if I need to, and not next week, if I don't have time?" I didn't even realize it was something we wanted or needed, which is where all great innovations come from.” IfsWantNeedsMeanI CanWantedNextRealizingWatchesWeekMinutesLike YouNeededInnovationNext Week Author:Tom Riley
“Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.” SometimesPastNextTermLike YouFindingsSittingTraditionBasesReassuring Author:Mohsin Hamid
“When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.” KnowsNeedsFeelsTryingWellsIdeasNextLostSpaceKnowingLike YouInternetEndureChecksEmptinessOnlineHelpfulHanging OutCracksNot KnowingNew IdeasEmailLost You Author:Miranda July