rocketChips’s most recent Quotables

For whatever you’re doing, for your creative juices, your geography’s got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

We're just a bunch of dirtbag players and we just go out and play hard and it's not flashy by any means...There's nothing special about our team other than the fact that we play hard and we just grind it out. And maybe that's why people don't like us because we don't have anything special. And when we do do things special, I think it pisses people off. [partialquote]

You, buddy, are stuck in a situation YOU created. So, if you wanna throw bad looks somewhere, throw 'em at a mirror!

I don't have any could-have, should-have, or would-haves. I wouldn't have changed anything. There's not many people that the last words that they said to their son or daughter was 'I love you,' and the last words they heard was 'I love you.' So that makes me sleep at night.

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you - no, you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed...success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!

I learned that no matter how bad things are keep going. No matter how good things are, keep going. The trick is being content and ambitious at the same time.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

I only do what I love, so that way you have no regrets. If you don't agree with something and do it anyway that sets you up for regret.

I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal-- you are somewhere you've never been.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you place you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

...it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion...

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become stronger, after it's been broken.

You will never have my permission to close yourself off to love and give up. Never. You must do everything you can to get what you want and need, to find “that type of love.” It’s there for you...we are here, all of us — beasts and monsters and beauties and wallflowers alike — to do the best we can. And every last one of us can do better than give up.

...all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we f*ck up entirely along the way.

It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

You aren’t afraid of love, sweet pea. You’re afraid of all the junk you’ve yoked to love. And you’ve convinced yourself that withholding one tiny word from the woman you think you love will shield you from that junk. But it won’t. We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not.