Ilena Osma Quotes & Sayings

I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.' — Jon Scieszka

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. — Susan Boyle

If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all? — Martin Luther

I am going to keep going untill I succeed or die.
Don't think I don't know how this might end.
I've known it for years.

-Harry Potter — J.K. Rowling

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser. — Susan Straight

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success. — T.D. Jakes

But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent. — Elizabeth Rudnick

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions. — Anita Hill

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Marine, eager but tempered by the fight — Chris Kyle