Bright Noa Quotes & Sayings

Outdoors, we knew, was the real terror of life. The threat of being outdoors surfaced frequently in those days. Every possibility of excess was curtailed with it. If somebody ate too much, he could end up outdoors. If somebody used too much coal, he could end up outdoors. People could gamble themselves outdoors, drink themselves outdoors. Sometimes mothers put their sons outdoors, and when that happened, regardless of what the son had done, all sympathy was with him. He was outdoors, and his own flesh had done it. To be put outdoors by a landlord was one thing - unfortunate, but an aspect of life over which you had no control, since you could not control your income. But to be slack enough to put oneself outdoors, or heartless enough to put one's own kin outdoors - that was criminal. — Toni Morrison

You're twelve years old. One horrible day your best friend's family moves to another town. You speak to your friend on the telephone now and then, but telephone conversations just aren't the same as those late-night sessions with the flashlights blinking out Morse code. Your second-best friend, who lives in the house next door to yours, eventually becomes your new best friend. It's time to teach your new best friend some Morse code and get the late-night flashlights blinking again. — Charles Petzold

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback. — Charles Keating

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why. — Robert Lembke

On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it. — Nagaru Tanigawa

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As — Kate Millett

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking". — Paulo Coelho

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. — Lenny Kravitz

I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all. — Angie Martinez

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. — Jean De La Bruyere

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I. — Dick Morris

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'. — Samantha Bond

First time I told my dad I liked a girl, he slathered me in honey and sealed me in a bear den for a night. Haven't liked one since." "First time I told my mother I fancied someone, she baked me in an oven for an hour," Mona agreed, green skin paling. "I never think about boys now." "First time I liked a boy, my dad killed him." The group stopped and stared at Arachne. "Maybe Sophie just had bad parents," she said. — Soman Chainani