Alfred Ashford Quotes & Sayings

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California. — James Q. Wilson

Ava's living area is made up of three primary spaces. — Alex Garland

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God. — Oswald Chambers

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,
am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first. — Henry David Thoreau

What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality. The world as you see it right here, right now, is reality, regardless of what the scientists say it might be. That's the way John sees it. But the world as revealed by its scientific discoveries is also reality, regardless of how it may appear, — Robert M. Pirsig

Please don't tell him we stole it," Passalos begged. "He isn't nice at all!" "Who is he?" Jason asked. "What god?" "I - I can't say," Passalos stammered. "You'd better," Leo warned. "No," Passalos said miserably. "I mean, I really can't say. I can't pronounce it! Tr - tri - It's too hard!" "Truh," Akmon said. "Tru-toh - Too many syllables! — Rick Riordan

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. — Lorrie Moore

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young. — Goldie Hawn

I'm feeling generous. We'll make it sixty-nine thousand. I just love writing 69s. I'll even put that in the memo. For sixty-nining your beautiful son. — Tiffany Reisz

Do something to make more money yourself
spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. — Gina Rinehart

Ivy wanted to do something for me, and if she couldn't give me a hug without her blood lust tainting it, then by God I would let her put that gunk under my eye. — Kim Harrison

Every girl deserves a guy who'll prove to her that not all guys are the same, a guy who'll love her just the way she is. — Lil' Wayne

One of the advantages of having a binary vascular system was that he could always pump his blood faster than normal if he chose to, raising his body temperature at will. — Marcus Sedgwick