Butet Lirik Quotes & Sayings

The night surrounded me, a photograph unglued from its frame. The lining of a coat ripped open like the two shells of an oyster. The day and the night unglued, and I falling in between not knowing on which layer I was resting, whether it was the cold grey upper leaf of dawn or the dark layer of night. — Anais Nin

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers — Albert Bandura

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended.
-Bound — Donna Jo Napoli

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got. — James N. Frey

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment. — Mahatma Gandhi

Most people do not realize that the Apostle John was actually using terminology familiar to 1st Century Jewish people. It was familiar, because it was language read in the Targums in the Synagogue every week. What John was doing by stating his first sentence in the manner was very similar to the technique used at the time (and today in some Orthodox Jewish sects), whereby one person would recite the first verse of a Psalm, and the students (or members of the Synagogue), would begin to recite the rest of the Psalm. Jesus did this as is recorded in the New Testament. The hearers should have understood to recite the entirety of Psalm 22 in response, "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" Matthew 27:46 — Tov Rose

Mistakes are easy to come by. Why make the same one twice? — Ellen Hopkins

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. — Robert Breault

When black America is on the move, America is on the move. — Cornel West

Tell her how much you love her; everything after that is small talk. — Craig Johnson

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. — Daisaku Ikeda

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules. — John Sculley