Akinwunmi Isola Quotes & Sayings

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews. — Philip Roth

I had been asked: Tell us "just exactly" what happened. A story? I began: I am not learned; I am not ignorant. I have known joys. That is saying too little. I told them the whole story, and they listened, it seems to me, with interest, at least in the beginning. But the end was a surprise to all of us. "That was the beginning,"they said. "Now get down to the facts." How so? The story was over!* — Maurice Blanchot

Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without. — Liza Palmer

When I went to prom, I wore my hair down. But I love the idea of a long dress with your hair up. It's just gorgeous. — Bethany Mota

People live through heartbreak, and you are strong enough to live through it many times. But Julian is not someone who can just touch your heart. He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having you heart break and you soul shatter. — Cassandra Clare

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them. — Emma Roberts

The police are there to do the job, not to think about it,' was the line used by critics, the harshest of which were often other police. But police officers see and hear at first hand the things that ail a society, and along the way they gain trememdous insight into how to fix problems or processes, even if they can't change people's behaviours or attitudes. With the right systems and resources, their personal capacity for creating a safer society is far more powerful than the guns they carry. This would be the thinking driving my direction when I later came to Victoria to take charge of its police force. — Christine Nixon

It was magic, the oldest magic of all when day became night, gods working in tandem, and I gave it the full benefit of my witness for the singular wonder it was. — J.D. Stanley

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. — Mignon McLaughlin

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce. — Mason Cooley

Hakan ducked his head inside. "You decent?"
Pilar couldn't contain her smile. "Give me a second and I won't be. — Erin Kellison

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?
Juniper: I can't be bothered. — Monica Furlong

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp. — Jeff Beck

The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world. — Ilchi Lee