Alusine Conteh Quotes & Sayings

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. — C.S. Lewis

I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me. — Diana Quick

My name is Abbey. And I'm in love with a ghost. — Jessica Verday

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy ... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. — Edward Abbey

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth — Ray Bradbury

Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them. — Anne Rice

My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel to animals, children even, but never so cruelly treat a book. — Christine Wade

The slightest deviation from the line of clear conviction - the least turning to left or right in order to cocker a prejudice or please an audience or flatter a class, showed a want of delicacy - a preference of present popularity to permanent self-respect - which he could never have indulged in himself, and with difficulty tolerated in others. He had nothing but contempt for philosophical politicians with a turn for swimming with the stream, and philosophical divines with the same turn. — Matthew Arnold

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me. — Harlan Coben

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.
My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. — Orson Scott Card