Brightpaws Quotes & Sayings

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. — Eric Clapton

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

every town, identical in the fundamentals and yet unique in the details. There — Skyler Grant

I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens. — Shahrukh Khan

Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw — Ogden Nash

This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under the moon wind rising and falling wind with many clouds trees in the night wind. — W.S. Merwin

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed. — John Fante

Many may see you,
but those who truly see you,
see your heart.
Many may know you,
but those who truly know you,
know your mind.
Many may hear you,
but those who truly hear you,
hear your soul.
Many may touch you,
but those who truly touch you,
touch your spirit. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants. — Jupiter Hammon

You know,I think I'd rather freeze than continue this conversation. You've been warned.Proceed at your own risk."
He smiled. "I always do,darlin'. — Johanna Lindsey

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions ... A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives. — Ralph Levy

Channel the power of anger into the admirable qualities of passion, strength, and conviction or courage. Use quiet, carefully modulated words surrounding an edge of steel. — Gerald J. Lieberman

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. — Andy Rooney

I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas - of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn't had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding. — Nicole Krauss