Engenius Ens202ext Quotes & Sayings

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that. — Billy Joel

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work. — Benito Perez Galdos

Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat. — James Hannaham

Why did parenting change from preparing our kids for life to protecting them from life, which means they're not prepared to live life on their own? — Julie Lythcott-Haims

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. — Dennis Potter

There's something you need to know, little goddess," he whispered, turning his face so his breath tickled my ear. It felt really good. He smiled, and my heart froze. It wasn't a nice smile. "I am much stronger than you. You cannot use your little tricks on me. I am immune, you stupid child. I'll forgive this one transgression, but if you ever try to manipulate my affections again, I will not be so accommodating. Do you understand? — Kaitlin Bevis

Slow people are just paying close attention. — Nancy Farmer

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic. — Dinesh D'Souza

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake. — Jean Cocteau

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. — George S. Patton

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. — Robert A. Heinlein

Don't count me out ... I have been built and strengthened by life's battles. When you think I'm tired; I'm just getting started. When you think I'm dead; that's when I'm most alive. — Steve Maraboli

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed. — David Robinson

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things. — Aarti Mann

We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry. — Cherrie Moraga