Animara Island Quotes & Sayings

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic. — Curtis Jackson

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds. — Terris McMahan Grimes

People without hope do not write novels ... [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal. — Flannery O'Connor

I believe that some people are lost souls, with nothing left to save. But some aren't lost, and the problem is you can't tell which is which. All you can do is try to save them all, and hope none of the good ones slip away, and none of the lost ones hurt you."

Jack Prescott, in Painted Black — Debra R. Borys

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them. — George Washington

Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit. — Dale Carnegie

Classical music can rock you! — Ji-Hae Park

Are you saying that as long as you are capable of bearing children, you are expected to do nothing else?" Torres asked. "What else could we possibly do that any civilized society would regard more highly?" Wentin asked. Any — Kirsten Beyer

Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing ... it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last — Sarah Dessen

The irrational haunts the metaphysical. — Annie Dillard

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook. — Carrot Top

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season. — Tryon Edwards

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself. — Denis Waitley

Everywhere, in whatever realm of life, whether among its callous, coarsely impoverished and messily moldering lower ranks, or among its monotonously gelid and tediously tidy upper strata, everywhere, if but once, a person will encounter a phenomenon on his journey that is unlike anything he has chanced to see heretofore and that, at least once will awake in him a feeling unlike any he is fated to feel for the rest of his life. — Nikolai Gogol

He rubs his hand through his thick, dark hair and I am riveted by the cords of rippling muscles that intertwine and gallop down his arms. — Jennifer Martucci