Amazonie Cassel Quotes & Sayings

Self love is like that instrument by which we propagate the species: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and it must be hidden. — Voltaire

Fear isn't what it appears to be,
it's a motivation that sets us free,
keep scratching, chewing and kicking me,
waiting for that moment in time to flee,
when it erupts in disbelief,
when it's exposed and we let it be,
without its hold it has no meaning. — Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

Those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson

The person who has read just a single book argues.
The person who has read the entire library watches in silence. — Unknown

How far must you go to gain respect? Um ...
Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own.
Or you'll be crazy sad and alone. — Q-Tip

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so. — Laura Harrington

Music is like making love: either all or nothing. — Isaac Stern

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly. — William Blake

You might get lucky and die in some corner.
~Soi Fon — Tite Kubo

Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven. — Mark Twain

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone. — Harry Beitzel

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald. — Julia Glass