BOOK 1

DISCOURSE MARKERS (Sentence openers)

* Deep down (inside), I'm pretty superficial. Ava Gardner

* Deep down, I happen to be very shallow. Pat Paulsen
* I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.

* Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
* It's annoying that we can't travel until Thursday, but the upside is that the fare will be cheaper then.
* Well at least the upside is that we get paid for it. 
* I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.

* I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

* Einstein developed a theory about space, and it was about time too.

* For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

* Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it?

* Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach

* I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

* I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years. Evangeline Lilly

* I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white.
* I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

* I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

* I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent.

* I have a knack for picking up a language in a few weeks. (get, master, learn)

* I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

* I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

* I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

* I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. 

* I think it would be fair to say that one of my very favourite pastimes is cooking (which is quite common in the wine business)

* I think it would be fair to say that advocates are routinely ruder to publishers than vice versa.

* I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks.

* I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

* I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure. 

* I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

* In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby

* In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

* In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

* It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

* It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

* It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

* It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with.

* It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being.

* It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

* It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all.

* It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy. Hedy Lamarr

* It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

* It's good to shut up sometimes.

* It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

* It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

* It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling - that you can begin to take control.
* It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

* It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

* It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.

* It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other.

* It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it.

* It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

* It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, if you like.

* (Nonetheless), today it is a sad and undeniable reality that ...
* It is a sad reality that with the proliferation of over 200 million guns in America, more and more children who, in my generation, would be the schoolyard bullies are now the kids bringing guns to school.
* It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

* It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman

* It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.

* It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill

* It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

* It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. Steve Jobs

* It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. 

* Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. Keith Richards
* (So) Let me get this straight – Donna told you she wanted to get back together and you said no? Eric: I said no. Red: What the Hell is wrong with you?

* Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! Golda Meir

* Likewise it is true to say that the majority of men are more in their element with machinery than the majority of women. 

* Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important. Bob Feller

* Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it. (Understand, notice, become aware of, take up)

* My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time. Dean Kamen

* My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs

* My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. Stephen Hawking

* My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. A. Lincoln

* My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it. Eminem

* No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. Chuck Palahniuk
* No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it

* (Well), not to put too fine a point on it, it's entirely your fault. (something that you say when you are going to say exactly what you mean, even if other people may not like it) "Excuse me for being blunt". Followed by "but" and a blunt statement.

* On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. Madonna Ciccone.

* One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley

* One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Cal Thomas

* Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. Steve Jobs

* Peepshow,' in retrospect, seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last.
* Pepsi is not unlike Coke.

* Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.' Jennie Finch

* So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. Albert Einstein

* Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me. Tori Amos

* Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Steve Jobs

* Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

* Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found. Eminem

* The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi

* The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized.

* The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

* The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus

* The lack of money is the root of all evil. Mark Twain

* The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. Ben Fountain

* The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. Thomas A. Edison

* The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle

* The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein

* The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

Keith Richards

* The other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. Parker Posey

* The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James A. Baldwin

* The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. Martin Luther King, Jr.

* The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

* The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind. Claire Forlani

* The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson

* The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem

* The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney

* There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

* There's one thing worse than being alone: wishing you were. Bob Steele

* There is only one thing worse than spending christmas alone: spending it with other people’s families.

* There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

* Things don't have to change the world to be important. Steve Jobs

* To be fair, lying is part and parcel of politics and public life. 

* To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing. Keith Richards

* To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

* True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

* Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 

* What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

* What's great/weird/striking/remarkable/amazing... about ... Is (the fact) that

* We're just enthusiastic about what we do. Steve Jobs

* When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. Gilbert K. Chesterton

* When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Mark Twain

* When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. Walt Disney

* (So) while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. Rick Moody

* When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die. Lee Trevino

* What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people.

* What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Jay Electronica

* When it comes to renting or buying, you'll spend about the same amount. It is also put as "when it comes down to it / that, as in "If it comes right down to it ..."

* You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.

James Pinckney Miller

* You reach a point where you don't work for money. Walt Disney

* You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." (J. K. Rowling)

DISCOURSE MARKERS (in the middle)

And sure enough

* Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. (Justifica tus limitaciones y te quedaras con ellas). Richard Bach

And so forth (and so on). An the like.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. Jane Asher

* As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while. Robert Duvall

* For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it. (and that's that/it). Matt Cameron

All you have to do is ...

* Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. Hedy Lamarr

As for

* As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates

As it were / so to speak

* A friend is, as it were, a second self. Marcus Tullius Cicero

As to

* As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates

By all means

* By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

That's why

* Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. Erma Bombeck

For some strange reason

* If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. Gwyneth Paltrow

* Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane. Charlie Sheen

When it comes to

* People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. Douglas Coupland 

* I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates

* I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Socrates

* In football, the good thing is things can change in a second. Didier Drogba

* It is not living that matters, but living rightly. Socrates

* It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus

* Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them. Charlie Sheen

* My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

* My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful. Jean Simmons

* My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs

* Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Samuel Beckett

* Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. Steve Jobs

* The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Aristotle

* The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. (Michael Althsuler)

* The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

* The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing. Kerry Packer

* The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

* ... To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. Pope Francis

* We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

* When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

* When the student is ready, the teacher appears. Likewise, when the teacher is ready, the students appear.

* Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. Epictetus

* Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. Napoleon Hill 

AVERBS DISCOURSE MARKERS

* I am essentially a loner. Lauren Bacall

* If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

* Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. William H. Sheldon

* Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. Joan Baez

* Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! Alice Hoffman

* Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it. Roger Federer

What of it? It means, "what about it?" or "so what?" or "who cares?"