Hoodsport Quotes & Sayings

I am remembering it now. — Liz Rosenberg

If you DON'T have diversity around your boardroom table, then what is wrong with you? — Rachel Sklar

But no, I'm sorry. I can't end there. I haven't yet said everything I want to say. A little girl is at school, out in the playground with her friends, and she sees a flower and says to her friends, just thinking out loud, wondering gently to herself: Do you think flowers have feelings? And for the rest of the day her friends tease her relentlessly, with every new opportunity that arises. Do flowers have feelings, that's so stupid. Right, flowers have feelings. All day and for the rest of the week: stupid flowers have stupid feelings and that little girl feels she is never going to say anything like that ever again. She has already learned that when you open your heart or express genuine, innocent curiosity or wonder about the world, your friends will pounce on the opportunity and use it to hurt you as viciously as possible and there is nothing anyone can do to protect her. It's simple stories like that that really break my heart. — Jacob Wren

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination. — Aharon Appelfeld

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. — Nhat Hanh

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting. — Katrina Kaif

Going to one school from age five to age eighteen was like being buried in amber. It wasn't even like his walls, which were covered with layers of things - you had to be the same person from start to finish, with no big cognitive jumps. — Emma Straub

I looked up and our eyes locked. I could see the longing in his eyes. I had never kissed a boy before, and I had never wanted to as much as I did right now. — Taryn Plendl

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. — Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess Of Reading

Constancy is the chimera of love. — Luc De Clapiers

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. — Shirley Conran

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln? — Robert Coles

Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver said But she never said a word never turned her head Don't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach today But she never said a word never turned her head — Peter Weiss

I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think. — Melina Marchetta

Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds.
Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend? — Gail Carriger