Decelerating To Avoid Quotes & Sayings

Hope is when against all odds a tiny flame keeps burning for the possibility. — Tilicia Haridat

Call me Autolycus. Well, no, don't. Although I am, like that unfunny clown, a picker-up of unconsidered trifles. Which is a fancy way of saying I steal things — John Banville

They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July ...
And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie. — Flavor Flav

Oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this? — Meg Cabot

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later. — Lenny Kravitz

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real. — George W. Bush

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? — Rebecca West

Women hear rhythm differently than men. — Elvis Costello

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that. — Auguste Rodin

Travel has always been my way of defeating this sinking feeling, partly because travel is a form of escape, and travel itself - the elemental farewell - becomes the fugitive fantasy of a new life, travel inspiring a sense of hope. I — Paul Theroux

Be prepared for a bit of a stinker! My little lambs always start bleating when told they're not going to Heaven. — E.A.A. Wilson

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?' — Robert Kiyosaki

In the Library you took your good times where you could find them. — Scott Hawkins

I would like to say that, as the protester finished his shower, I was disturbed by the contradiction between my avowed political materialism and my inexperience with this brand of making, of poeisis, but I could dodge or dampen that contradiction via my hatred of Brooklyn's boutique biopolitics, in which spending obscene sums and endless hours on stylized food preparation somehow enabled the conflation of self-care and political radicalism. — Ben Lerner