“Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?” IfsKnowsWayStillsDifferentSeemsRunningWonderDrugAnxietyMy FriendsMalesMiserablePrescriptions Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFeelingsRunningLostLanguageCryDepressionMy FriendsMy FamilyGive MeAskingIllnessCaringMental IllnessTerritoryInvitationsFacilityForeignersNoticingFaking ItNew Territory Author:Martha Manning
“When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"” WayPersonsHelpingHumorHandsRunningFunnyChanceFireFiguresBearsAuthorityMy FriendsWoodsIntenseForestsRanAcidSwearingForest FiresAuthority Figures Author:Mitch Hedberg
“My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff.” KnowsKindLittlesRunningStuffMy FriendsDecidedDay To DayPubsPorkDementedBad StuffMascots Author:Jason Flemyng
“I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.” IfsWantKindPersonsRunningStarsWatchesMy FriendsShootingShooting Star Author:Paris Hilton
“I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.” RunningExerciseMy FriendsCalisthenics Author:Winston Churchill
“All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.” PeopleWayRunningCertainHousePerfectCreativeCuttingWonderfulMy FriendsCookingMeant To BeAmbitiousMarvelousBe CreativeHousewife Author:Diana Vreeland
“I miss working with my friends and the fun we had. Working on the series was the best time I ever had on a set. I am disappointed that they cancelled the series when they did, because I felt that by the seventh season, we were really hitting our stride, and that episodes were getting better and better. Some people say that the show had run its course and that it was time to quit, but I disagree.” PeopleShowsRunningCoursesFunFeltMissingMy FriendsSeasonsSeriesQuittingGet BetterDisappointedDisagreeEpisodesHittingStrideBest TimesI Am Disappointed Author:Michael Dorn
“[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.” IfsMenWayMayWarUseRunningLawFallDoubtDangerWillingArmsOughtBattleMy FriendsDifficultyFasterKneesNo DoubtAvoidingEscapingUnrighteousnessAvoiding Death Author:Socrates
“My friend taught me this one. You take the heel of your hand, you can shove someone's nose right through their brain. I can't even watch someone blow their nose. If I'm in a fight, I'm not gonna be shoving or poking, I'm gonna be running or begging - that's my two choices, right there.” IfsI CanTwoHandsRunningChoicesFightingBrainWatchesTaughtMy FriendsBlowNosesHeelsBeggingTwo Choices Author:Andy Kindler
“When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.” YearsWellsTwoRunningGirlDadInvolvedMy FriendsTwo YearsRehearsalOther GirlBackupAlways RunningImpersonators Author:Brandi Carlile
“When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.” RunningSocialSecurityMy FriendsHatsAdsSocial SecurityCattle Author:John McCain
“My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.” TwoRunningArmsMy FriendsTattooInk Author:Charlie Benante
“My metabolism - I bring snacks with me all the time. My friends make fun of me, but I just run on very tight fuel or something.” RunningFunMy FriendsFuelSnacksMetabolism Author:April Rose
“Just women who are really eclectic, so every woman from Gwyneth Paltrow to Peggy Nolan, who has half a shaved head and has a totally wild aesthetic. They're woman who are doing things, running their own businesses, taking chances at different levels of success and different industries. A lot of my friends are creatives. It was just who I really adore and wanted to share with a greater audience.” DifferentRunningWantedChanceLevelsHalfAudienceGreaterShareIndustryMy FriendsAestheticAdoreTake A ChanceOwn BusinessDifferent LevelsEclecticNolanShaved Head Author:Sophia Amoruso
“I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.” PeopleThinkingSaidHelpingRunningLastsRecordsNew YorkMy FriendsInvestmentSouthFinalsCome UpFinanceMinistersRegimesSouth AfricaNailsSeniorPropositionsSanctionsApartheidCoffinsTreasuryVancouverCommercial Banks Author:Bob Hawke
“Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.” RunningCoursesExerciseMy FriendsGolfCollapseGolf CourseParamedics Author:Red Skelton
“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.” YearsTwoRunningKidsUsedGrowing UpFourGrowingGayPercentMy FriendsHanging OutBuddyKentucky Author:Hal Sparks
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” InspirationalHeartMomentsMotivationalRunningLastsFriendshipKindnessFriendsMy FriendsPatienceSeriesPreciseReal FriendsFillingVesselTrue FriendTrue FriendshipMy FriendshipAbout FriendshipFriendship MemoriesBest FriendshipInspirational FriendshipMaking FriendsLasting FriendshipInspiring FriendsFriendship GardenNot FriendsFriendship OverThat One FriendUnique Friendship Author:Ray Bradbury
“Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.” TryingRunningGirlFightingGivenSecretLaughingHairMy FriendsFairsSwimLockedFistsGiven UpSnapsLureBaitGauges Author:Wendelin Van Draanen
“The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought” IfsMenShouldTryingRunningStarsNatureBornSunImagineHeardLuckyMoonMy FriendsShould HaveFishesGladEach DayOld ManRunning Away Author:Ernest Hemingway
“In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.” KnowsWantSaidRunningSchoolTogetherBehindsLaughingMiddleCryHairMomKingsMy FriendsDecidedExcuseMy MomHeyOver ItShoppingOne TimeMallsMiddle SchoolMeccaPrussiaBehind My Back Author:Taylor Swift
“My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.” IfsLittlesMadeLightRunningLyingLinesMistakeAttitudeStupidLuckyMy FriendsTwentiesBottomCaughtFoolishThirtyRevelationsFiftyFortyTake MeTeensFlashFoolishnessBottom LineStupid ThingsFoolish MistakesStop LyingMadea Author:Tyler Perry