Deadbeat Quotes

“You're a grown man now, Nathan. I'm sorry for any problems you have, but part of being an adult is to stop blaming your parents for whatever shortcomings you have. That's pretty basic.”
― Noah Van Sciver, The Lizard Laughed

“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush.”
― Rachel Autumn Deering, Husk

“Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you”
― O. S. Hickman

“Invisible walls barricade you and all winds have ceased. You feel encased by padded glass, held by arms you cannot see.
You were never claustrophobic, despite all that time spent in bunkers and narrow beds and lifelong closets. But like any reasonable person, living or dead, you'd like to have the option of running away, especially when there is plenty to run from.”
― Almeida maali

“Invisible walls barricade you and all winds have ceased. You feel encased by padded glass, held by arms you cannot see.

You were never claustrophobic, despite all that time spent in bunkers and narrow beds and lifelong closets. But like any reasonable person, living or dead, you'd like to have the option of running away, especially when there is plenty to run from.”

Instead you find yourself immobile and optionless, the involuntary detainee of figures in white smocks. Moses to your left and He-Man to your right. They look ahead and they do not smile. Before you is Dr Ranee: white sari, ledger book and schoolyard scowl”
― Almeida maali

“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“This ain't no time for you to be a deadbeat sister. Again."
I gasped. "Deadbeat? Again?"
Kerresha dragged her suitcase up the steps, now.
"Absent. Estranged. Not present. Whatever you want to call it." The words erupted from her mouth like a geyser.”
― Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens

“Harvey Weinstein took pride in not paying bills,” recounted Miramax’s former chief financial officer John Schmidt. “But when you stiff a filmmaker you are stiffing the very lifeblood of what your business is. The whole independent film business is based on championing the small guy.”
― Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence