Greys Anatomy Season 1 Voiceover Sentence Starters
“A person either has what it takes to play, or they don’t.”
“ I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. “
“They make it hard on purpose.”
“There are lives in our hands.”
“There comes a moment when it’s more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. “
“ You need boundaries, between you and the rest of the world.”
“Other people are far too messy”
“ It’s all about lines. Drawing lines in the sand and praying like hell no one crosses them.”
“At some point you have to make a decision.”
“Boundaries don’t keep other people out; they fence you in.”
“Life is messy, that’s how we’re made. So you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them.
“There are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross.”
“Here’s what I know, if you’re willing to take the chance, the view from the other side is spectacular.”
“We’re together more than we are apart”
“ Number one : Always keep score. Number two: do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Number three: Don’t make friends with the enemy. Oh, yeah, Number four: Everything, everything is a competition.”
“It’s not about the race at all. There are no winners or losers”
“Intimacy is a four syllable word for, ‘Here is my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger and enjoy.’ It’s both desired, and feared. Difficult to live with, and impossible to live without.”
“Intimacy also comes attached to the three R’s… relatives, romance, and roommates.”
“There are some things you can’t escape. And other things you just don’t want to know.”
“ I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you’ve crossed the line”
“And as for rules, maybe there are none.”
“Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.”
“Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you’d get a bike for your birthday or if you’d get to eat cookies for breakfast?”
“Being an adult? Totally overrated.”
“Don’t be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. Adulthood is responsibility.”
“Responsibility, it really does suck.”
“Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn’t go away.”
“Either someone makes us face it or we suffer the consequences.”
“You’d think more of us would listen to what he had to say.”
“I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d say it has a lot to do with fear.”
“What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo?”
“The early bird catches the worm”
“A stitch in time saves nine.”
“He who hesitates is lost.”
“We can’t pretend we haven’t been told.”
“We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day’.”
“Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons.”
“We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore.”
“Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping.
“Even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.”
“If life’s so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves?”
“What’s up with the need to hit the self-destruct button?”
“Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way.”
“Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know, maybe we just wouldn’t feel real.”
“You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales?”
“You’d lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith.”
“Eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears.”
“Most people turn to the things and people they can trust.”
“The thing is, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope and faith that one day they’ll open their eyes and it will all come true.”
“At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing.”
“It turns up when you don’t really expect it.”
“It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed.”
“The castle, well, it may not be a castle.”
“It’s not so important, that it’s happy ever after, just that it’s happy right now.”
“See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away.”
“Secrets can’t hide in science.”
“Medicine has a way of exposing the lies.”
“One thing is certain, whatever it is we’re trying to hide; we’re never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked.”
“That’s the problem with secrets – like misery, they love company. They pile up and up until they take over everything, until you don’t have room for anything else, until you’re so full of secrets you feel like you’re going to burst.”
“The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free.”
“Whether good or bad, at least the secrets out in the open, like it or not.”
“Once your secrets are out in the open, you don’t have to hide behind them anymore.”
“The problem with secrets is even when you think you’re in control, you’re not.”
