Arrika Mitchell Quotes & Sayings

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to begin this project - neither of us had ever collaborated with another writer - and I'm pretty sure that we began by giving our two friends a sock, just to see what they'd do with it. And it went from there. — Kate DiCamillo

prepare. Creed took her mouth. — Kristen Ashley

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge. — Horace Mann

Some people just talk through Life. They talk, talk, talk and Life is over. Some people walk through Life. They walk, walk, walk and arrive at their Destination.-RVM — R.v.m.

Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous. — Marie Brennan

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities. — Oprah Winfrey

Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity. — Abhijit Naskar

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave. — Jessamyn West

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall. — Betty Hill

Express yourself, don't repress yourself. — Madonna Ciccone

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.' — Amy Adams

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution — Clay Shirky

Faith doesn't mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God's goodness is greater. — Matt Chandler

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about. — Garrison Keillor