Cyra Quotes & Sayings

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience. — Lester Bowie

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. — Annette Bening

Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave. — Cyra McFadden

You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'

P189 — Veronica Roth

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable from it. I might show that it is fatal to religion and morality; that it tends to debase the mind, and corrupt its noblest springs of action. I might show that it relaxes the sinews of industry, clips the wings of commerce, and introduces misery and indigence in every shape. — Alexander Hamilton

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions. — Peter Hargreaves

There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth. — Veronica Roth

Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'. — Mauric Friedman

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons. — Cyra McFadden

Success is nice, but I'm happy no matter what, — Sofia Johansson

Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think. — Veronica Roth

I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his arm by the elbow, and we ran together, through the singing crowd, past swaying elders, men and women dancing too close, irritable off-planet visitors trying to cover up their wares in the market. We splashed through bright blue puddles, soaking our clothes. And we were both, for once, laughing. — Veronica Roth

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."

pg 337 — Veronica Roth

Oh! it is not my remembering God, it is God's remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it is not my laying hold of His covenant, but His covenant's laying hold on me. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. — Benjamin Disraeli

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. — Cyra McFadden

I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces. — Cyra McFadden