Chukwuma Quotes & Sayings

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours. — H.L. Mencken

I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky."
"Some days I feel like I did." I say. — Lauren DeStefano

Personal branding is about standing for something in a big way and asserting yourself honestly and boldly. It's about casting aside the limitations and pressures imposed by what you've been told that you can or cannot be or do and expanding your vision, going for the very best and becoming your very best. — MonaLisa Chukwuma

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade. — Paloma Faith

Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise. — Paul Adefarasin

Did all the lets and bars appear
To every just or larger end,
Whence should come the trust and cheer?
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend
Age finds place in the rear.
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys,
The champions and enthusiasts of the state — Herman Melville

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded. — Art Alexakis

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions. — Gerald Jampolsky

You're a dead man, Roarke. You don't know it, but you've already stopped breathing. The walking dead. And when you finally realize you're dead, and drop to the ground and you're laying there, I'm going to step over your cold, lifeless body, open the doors of that department store you call a closet, and I torch it.
Eve Dallas — J.D. Robb

The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, the ferocity, the amount and degree of pure sensation that it provides. Intensity. — Dean Koontz

Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup! — Ashley Purdy

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great. — James Frey