Color Purple Celie Abuse Quotes & Sayings

Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops ... I live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop. — Chris Cleave

It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege. — Elie Wiesel

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy that they have in Iraq, quite honestly. — Vladimir Putin

There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit. — Thomas A Kempis

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. — Yitzhak Shamir

Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993. — Tina Brown

Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
and holding them, clicking them
in thumb and forefinger,
the indent of twenty-five years,
like a tiny rip leaving its mark ... — Anne Sexton

Riots followed hunger like thunder follows lightning. — Gary A. Ballard