Aarika Trabona Quotes & Sayings

So many promises and hopes I had for myself were wrapped up in tomorrow, and the greatest loss of all was not having more to look forward to. "Then — Maggie Leffler

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go. — A-Trak

Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [ ... ] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches. — Stephen Jay Gould

My father had put these things on the table.
I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed.
I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving.
And I was so ashamed. — Jennifer Donnelly

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. — Bill Gates

I don't like the name, U2, actually. — Bono

Commitment is the match that lights the fire. — Wally Amos

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. — Tony Judt