Babylon A.d. Memorable Quotes & Sayings

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot. — Steve Diggle

Get this in your head right now, you ain't pregnant and you never were. That ain't the way it is." "Well if I ain't, then what am I?" "With all your book learnin', you are the most ignorant child I ever did see . . ." Her voice trailed off. ". . . but I don't reckon you really ever had a chance." Slowly — Harper Lee

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise. — Magha

One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke. — Tom Douglas

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head. — Emma Donoghue

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. — Thomas Reed

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent - now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance. — Richard G. Scott

What she must feel for him was an awed fear. Whether or not Mama had told her to go to his room, she had not said no to Odenigbo because she had not even considered that she could say no. Odenigbo made a drunken pass and she submitted willingly and promptly. He was the master, he spoke English, he had a car. It was the way it should be. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. — Charles Caleb Colton

Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make up daily life
that's where great work comes from, and if you enable students in this way to discover those impulses and observations in themselves, those heroisms and cruelties in themselves, you create an atmosphere in which art can emerge. — Deb Margolis

And a smaller, sad, little-dead-poet sphere with acne scars spins around us lighting the night ... — N.D. Wilson

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty. — William Bradford