Distractingly Beautiful Quotes & Sayings

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney

Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with. — Carol Roth

Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question.
"Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. — Lisa Renee Jones

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside? — Alexandra David-Neel

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about? — Sophie Kinsella

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me. — Casey Stengel

There goes the dismantled - Love has fallen off her wall. A religious woman," he thought to himself, "without the joy and safety of the Catholic faith, which at a pinch covers up the spots on the wall when the family portraits take a slide; take that safety from a woman," he said to himself, quickening his step to follow her, "and love gets loose and into the rafters. She sees her everywhere," he added, glancing at Nora as she passed into the dark. "Out looking for what she's afraid to find - Robin. There goes mother of mischief, running about, trying to get the world home. — Djuna Barnes

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens. — Helen Keller

You were wrong, commander. Whatever chains you try to place on me, I will always, always, rise from them. I'm not buying my freedom, because you never owned it. But I am taking it back, for me, and for my country. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist'] — Herman Bondi

It is a human tendency to
become what you attack. — Scott Adams

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content. — Gloria Steinem

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache. — Curly Howard

As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor. — Ramsey Campbell