10 Kickass Miriam Defensor Santiago Quotes & Sayings

God help those who do not help themselves. — Wilson Mizner

Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates

Laugh all you want."
"I can laugh all I want." ::pause for effect:: "Did someone here make me say that?"
-Kyp and Bombaasa — James Luceno

A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. — Holly Black

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday. — Etta James

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

-Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings. — Leo Tolstoy

There's competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What I'm saying is that I've never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home. — Grace Gealey

I had my Boswell, once," Mason tells Boswell, "Dixon and I. We had a joint Boswell. Preacher nam'd Cherrycoke. Scribbling ev'rything down, just like you, Sir. Have you," twirling his Hand in Ellipses, - "you know, ever . . . had one yourself? If I'm not prying." "Had one what?" "Hum . . . a Boswell, Sir, - I mean, of your own. Well you couldn't very well call him that, being one yourself, - say, a sort of Shadow ever in the Room who has haunted you, preserving your ev'ry spoken remark, - " "Which else would have been lost forever to the great Wind of Oblivion, - think," armsweep south, "as all civiliz'd Britain gathers at this hour, how much shapely Expression, from the titl'd Gambler, the Barmaid's Suitor, the offended Fopling, the gratified Toss-Pot, is simply fading away upon the Air, out under the Door, into the Evening and the Silence beyond. All those voices. Why not pluck a few words from the multitudes rushing toward the Void of forgetfulness? — Thomas Pynchon

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell. — E.A. Bucchianeri

You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them, — Mark Leslie