Icoana Maica Quotes & Sayings

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that. — Amandla Stenberg

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom. — Dorothy L. Sayers

What I want is to be number one. — Steve Prefontaine

There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one's feet sends one to the page and a habit is born. — Lorrie Moore

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires ... . — James A. Murphy

For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man. — Alexander Masters

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. — Mario Puzo

Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"
"Medium."
"Excuse me?"
"How am I supposed to answer that question? — Amie Kaufman

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes. — George R R Martin

You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer. — Harry Mulisch