Cidade Quotes & Sayings

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable. — C.S. Lewis

The big car companies are so derivative. They want to see it work somewhere else before they will approve the project and move forward. — Ashlee Vance

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either. — Robert Ardrey

The ads in the papers all said 'help wanted, will train,' but wherever she went she was turned down. "The position's just been filled," she was told again and again. Or, "We wouldn't want to upset the other employees." At the department store where she had once bought all her hats and silk stockings they would not hire her as a cashier because they were afraid of offending the customers. Instead they offered her work adding up sales slips in a small dark room in the back where no one could see her but she politely declined.
"I was afraid I'd ruin my eyes back there," she told us. "I was afraid I might accidentally remember who I was and ... offend myself. — Julie Otsuka

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect. — Ken Starr

Man ... ninjas are kind of cool ... I just don't know any personally. — Kanye West

In order to access a warrior's courage, we must explore why we are so committed to our story and what we are afraid will happen if we give it up. — Debbie Ford

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can — Bert McCracken

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. — Aldous Huxley

I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout. — Wynton Marsalis

My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself. — Wilbur Smith

For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate. — Homer

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. — Patti LuPone

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer. — Dana Stabenow