Chantent Quotes & Sayings

The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was decided that instead of being slaves they were just good friends. — David Sedaris

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy. — Aaron Neville

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is that what happened here? — David Lagercrantz

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self. — Phil McGraw

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak - its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing. — Tony Hendra

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I could tell you the truth about me ... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you ... — Zan Perrion

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. — Alicia Witt

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. — Ray Bradbury

The right side of his face was sore, the left side tender with beard burn. Regardless that smiling made his face ache; he couldn't stop it when he thought about his and Judge's kiss. That mind-consuming-all-encompassing-soul-searching kiss. And did Judge say that Michaels was his? — A.E. Via

High-quality web content that's useful, usable, and enjoyable is one of the greatest competitive advantages you can create for yourself online. — Kristina Halvorson

I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.
Does that make me a cat person? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else. — Joan Fontcuberta

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. — William Shakespeare

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. — Guy Kawasaki