Anotah Quotes & Sayings

He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword...He cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds. — Unknown

I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self boundlessly recharged beneath the water. Her courage. In the cave I think she must have lent me some of it, because the strength I felt then was as huge as the sun. The yellow inside you that makes you want to live. I believe that she was the pulse and bloom that forced me toward the surface. — Karen Russell

If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it. — Emily Remler

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself. — Carmelo Anthony

The law of God is not to return evil for evil;
indeed, if you try in this way to stamp out wickedness
it will come upon you all the stronger. It is not difficult
for you to kill the man, but his blood will surely stain
your own soul. You may think you have killed a bad
man
that you have gotten rid of evil
but you will soon
find out that the seeds of still greater wickedness have
been planted within you. — Leo Tolstoy

Here, in this waiting room, one could see a cross section of them - the hoppers, the creepers, the crawlers, the wrigglers, and rollers that came from the many planets, from so many stars. Earth was the galactic melting pot, he thought, a place where beings from the thousand stars met and mingled to share their thoughts and cultures. — Clifford D. Simak

Pessimists can be such bores, and it's lazy to believe the worst. — Paul Morley

Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway. — Isabel Allende

The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached. — John Stott