Donatien Nonnotte Quotes & Sayings

My whole family knows I can't sing. My voice, my sister says, is just left of the key. Just right of the tune. But I sing anyway, whenever I can. — Jacqueline Woodson

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math. — Phil Foglio

We do know that working-class Americans aren't just less likely to climb the economic ladder, they're also more likely to fall off even after they've reached the top. I imagine that the discomfort they feel at leaving behind much of their identity plays at least a small role in this problem. One way our upper class can promote upward mobility, then, is not only by pushing wise public policies but by opening their hearts and minds to the newcomers who don't quite belong. Though — J.D. Vance

I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine. — Michael Crawford

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. — Scott Hamilton

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. — John Selden

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore. — Steve Martin

Life live by faith is endless blessings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Appreciate youthful exuberance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease. — Sean Elliott

-that unsleeping care which must have known that it could permit itself but one mistake; that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realizing that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger. — William Faulkner

I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.' — Jesse McCartney

Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance. — Wim Wenders