Ekwueme Quotes & Sayings

She watched his chest rise and fall and remembered and reflected. All her life things had been taken from her: Apollo, Thomas's affection, Mama and Papa, her home, her future. No one had ever asked her opinion, garnered her thoughts on what she wanted or needed. Things had been done to her, but she'd never had the chance to do things. Like a doll on a shelf, she'd been moved about, manipulated, flung aside. — Elizabeth Hoyt

If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow. — Anne Ursu

I think you'd better stay extra alert tonight."

"Okay."

"I'm serious, Jeff. Someone snuck up on both Hampton and Martin, and neither of them are shirkers."

He grins. "You're worried for me, aren't you?"

"Course I am."

"Know what I think?"

I scowl at him, which only widens his grin.

He steps closer, puts a hand to my chin, and lifts it so I can't avoid his gaze. "I think you're in love with me," he says.

I stare at his lips. What comes out of my mouth is: "Jefferson McCauley Kingfisher, you have the swagger of a rooster and the swelled head of a melon. — Rae Carson

I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie. — Michael Trevino

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. — Henry David Thoreau

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to. — Joel Osteen

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved. — Brooks Atkinson

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious. — Marshall Sylver

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. — Ray Bradbury

If all you have is music, then you don't have music — Wayne Shorter

If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour ... I'm there. — Tommy Lee