Aitkens Elegant Quotes & Sayings

I'd like all of you to ask yourselves what you would have done, were you a student here in Valentine Morgenstern's day. Would you have joined the Circle? Would you have stood by Valentine's side at the Uprising? Raise your hand, if you think it's possible. Simon was unsurprised to see not a single hand in the air. He'd played this game back in mundane school, every time his history class covered World War II. Simon knew no one ever thought they would be a Nazi. Simon — Cassandra Clare

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream. — Stefanie Powers

Allow your heart to have faith no matter what. It's what will give you strength in troubled times. — Morgan Rhodes

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond! — Arthur Conan Doyle

There's something unique about me, we just can't figure out what it is. — Steven Jackson

Using poise is not being fake; it is being professional, strong, and composed. — Tanya R. Liverman

Accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it. — Ruth Draper

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything. — Victoria Beckham

You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have. — Iris Apfel

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot. — Gerard Way

Semicolons ... signal, rather than shout, a relationship ... A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do." — George Will

Stella says older men make better lovers; with boys our age, she says, the ice cream melts once the cone's in your hand. — David Mitchell

The tree falls not at the first stroke. — John Ray

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk