Ashtin Quotes & Sayings

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. — John Singleton

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! — Malcolm X

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. — Yann Martel

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do. — Price Pritchett

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'. — Octavia Spencer

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things. — Andy Warhol

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. — Maria Montessori

One cannot escape dogmas - those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague. — Sigrid Undset

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. — Andy Stern

if we want to love Jesus completely, ardently, and perfectly - as did Mother Teresa - then we need his Spirit of Love, and Mary Immaculate brings him to us. — Michael Gaitley

Joliffe, watching him over the rim of his own bowl, felt for his discontent. In his own life there were other things he could have been besides a player
several other things he had been besides a player
but at least he had had choices and made them. He doubted this fellow had ever seen anything else to be but what he was. Or else he had refused other choices if they ever came. but staying with what you were born to was a choice, too, and the one that most people made
a choice that Joliffe could have made, too, upon a time, but had not and of that he was still glad. — Margaret Frazer

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music. — Brian McKnight

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. — John Irving