Comitoina Quotes & Sayings

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance. — Vijay Seshadri

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages. — Jesmyn Ward

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. — Virginia Woolf

Truth be told, my emergency escape plan was a little flawed. At least I'd made it over the fence. — Kylie Scott

You are almost never cool to your children. — Neil Gaiman

Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now. — Amanda Filipacchi

Christians are not powerless. We have the mighty power of God available through God the Holy Spirit, even in this world. — Billy Graham

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments. — Saina Nehwal