Feliz Viernes Cafe Quotes & Sayings

I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches. — Jodi Picoult

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion. — Jamaica Kincaid

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated. — Anton Du Beke

We should measure our children not by the mountains they conquer but by their efforts to climb. Oh - and let them pick which hills to scale. — Ron Fournier

NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind — Richard Bandler

People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them. — Bessel Van Der Kolk

If your house is on fire, you don't comfort yourself with the thought that houses have been catching fire for thousands of years. You don't sit idly back and think, "Oh well, that is the way of nature." You get going, immediately. And you don't spring into action because of an idealistic notion that houses deserve to be saved. You do it because if you don't, you won't have a place to live. — Bill Nye

I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse. — Jim Butcher

If it's God you're worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn't keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago. — Diane Samuels

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake. — Pyotr Kropotkin

The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you. — Dr. Dre

Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them. — Cormac McCarthy

Writing is not the voice's shadow but the tracks of its steps. It is only thanks to writing that we can listen to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians even today, that we can hear their voices as full of life as if they had just spoken. My friend, only writing has the power to move a voice through time, and make it as immortal as the gods. — Rafik Schami

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine! — Ricky Martin