Affording Private Quotes & Sayings

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past. — Napoleon Hill

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience. — Chinua Achebe

Axel and Fable, their father was a woodcutter, and they live in a Candy House? Axel is always hungry, and eats too much candy, and Fable is fond of eating bread. It doesn't get easier than that to know who they really are. — Cameron Jace

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there. — Frank Stella

I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye. — K. Howard Joslin

Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest. — Alan Brennert

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact. with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential. — Daniel J. Levitin

In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and he told officers: Just charge me with the usual. — Bob Probert

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

no monster here,
only the shape of a falling star
where your heart should be.
northbound & reaching, a
hero telling her story. it starts
like this: once upon a time,
you rode the dragon
& saved your own life. — Natalie Wee