Deonee Quotes & Sayings

And though nobody has been dumb enough to say anything close to "You need to get laid" to my face, I resent the idea that anyone might think, if they knew my history, that I'd be slightly different by virtue of having a penis-however briefly-inside me. That is some phallocentric bullshit if I ever heard any. Hypothetical penises don't make the rules. I make the rules. I love the rules. — Katie Heaney

Unless the radio is on, I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do. — Leona Lewis

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself. — Melissa De La Cruz

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life. — Alethea Kontis

After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered. — Daniel Royot

There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance ... People who survive through the tears ... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them. — Steve Maraboli

As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in just such a way, and seen and heard the very same things that he was seeing and hearing now.
Yes, the Farmer Gibberty had once been a real living man, like himself. And so had millions of others, whose names he had never heard. And one day he himself would be a prisoner, confined between the walls of other people's memory. And then he would cease even to be that, and become nothing but a few words cut in stone. What would these words be, he wondered. — Hope Mirrlees

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. — Frank Bruno

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. — Italo Calvino

Of course he was there, a removed audience
of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,
the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,
long after they quit staring at each other
at the dinner table. — Thabo Jijana

Cyrus became lord of that great realm. His first act was to free all the peoples held in captivity by the Babylonians. Among them were the Jews, who went home to Jerusalem — E.H. Gombrich

All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That's all they got, my body, not me. I'm everywhere, see? Everywhere you look, junior, everywhere you go. — William Landay