Jonathan Tropper Quotes
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Jonathan Tropper Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.
But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come.
What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time?
And if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard.
Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model," he says, and he would know. "It will never feel as good as it looks.
You OK?" she says, raising her eyebrows. "You're teetering."
He nods and steadies himself against the wall. "Aren't we all," he says.
He nods and steadies himself against the wall. "Aren't we all," he says.
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
Anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.
There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.
Then I'm telling it wrong." "Bad?" "Yes. Divorce shouldn't be friendly. It just makes everything that much more confusing,
I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know.
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.
I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.
I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.
A problem is something to solve," Phillip says. "If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one.
Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.
You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don't even get to mourn.
The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself.
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago.
It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.
If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.
And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display.
[T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.
At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.
Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.
In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.
if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.
I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.
You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song.