Distinction Inspiring Quotes & Sayings

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again. — Patrick Carman

Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them. — Harper Lee

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But ... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?' — Buck Owens

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I walk lighter, stumble less, with more spring in leg and lung, keeping my center of gravity deep in the belly, and letting that center 'see.' At these times, I am free of vertigo, even in dangerous places; my feet move naturally to firm footholds, and I flow. But sometimes for a day or more, I lose this feel of things, my breath is high up in my chest, and then I cling to the cliff edge as to life itself. And of course it is this clinging, the tightness of panic, that gets people killed: 'to clutch,' in ancient Egyptian, 'to clutch the mountain,' in Assyrian, were euphemisms that signified 'to die' (125). — Peter Matthiessen

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a like, by a comment. That does not define you. — Selena Gomez

Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu — The RZA

In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath. — Rachel Sklar

I've never had a fetish, but I'm thinking about starting one. — Emma Chase

Most Shadowhunters get their first Marks at twelve. It must have been in your blood."
"Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder."
Jace looked baffled. "You wanted a turtle on your shoulder?"
-Jace & Clary, pg. 314- — Cassandra Clare

Viola was a good reader, a bookworm - a phrase she hated. "How can a worm be a nice thing to be?" Viola said. I would be a worm, Nancy thought, if that was the only existence on offer, and then laughed at herself for having reached such a pass. "Without worms we wouldn't be able to grow food and everyone would starve," Nancy said reasonably. — Kate Atkinson

Did you once own ruby slippers, and did a house fall on your head? You're a daft little munchkin. — Heather Fleener

How do you photograph data? — Rick Smolan