Benita Nall Quotes & Sayings

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison. — Nelson Mandela

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. — Oscar Wilde

This Land is mostly white space on the map ... which is how it should be; I'll leave more detailed map making to those graduate students and English teachers who feel that every goose which lays gold must be dissected so that all of its quite ordinary guts can be labelled; to those figurative engineers of the imagination who cannot feel comfortable with the comfortably overgrown (and possible dangerous) literary wilderness until they have built a freeway composed of Cliff's Notes through it - and listen to me, you people: every English teacher who ever did a Monarch or Cliff's Notes ought to be dragged out to his or her quad, drawn and quartered, then cut up into tiny pieces, said pieces to be dried and shrunk in the sun and then sold in the college bookstore as bookmarks. — Stephen King

The professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it. He commits full-time. That's what I mean when I say turning pro. Resistance hates it when we turn pro. — Steven Pressfield

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. — Ken Auletta

When you're the ones in the life raft and you have four or five women in the life raft who put it together, by the end of it your nerves are blown. The people you're going to attack are the people who are helping you, who you are holding it together with. — Junot Diaz

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. — Kingsley Amis

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. — Rita Dove

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — James Smith McDonnell

We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan. — Debbi Fields