Colorfield Quotes & Sayings

In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment. — Ernest L. Wilkinson

I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers. — Alexandra Bracken

The pain of being human is that we're all angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh. — Steven Pressfield

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior. — Judith Martin

Appearance gives rise to interpretation Interpretation gives rise to comparison Comparison gives rise to preference Preference gives rise to disappointment — Ramon Bachty

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse. — Priyavrat Thareja

Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men]. — Ishmael Reed

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were. — Erasmus

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak. — Malala Yousafzai

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million. — Iyanla Vanzant

There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there. — Dean Koontz

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster. — Bear Grylls

My world slips away and I again taste vengeance on my tongue. — Christine Fonseca