Ilinka Meglemre Quotes & Sayings

If it were really up to me, I would study literature and creative writting. I would major it it, if I really could. But whose life these days are really up to the person living it? — Molly Lynn Robinson

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too. — Lisa Wingate

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home) — Mae West

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair. — William Wordsworth

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the freedom to imagine and the right to use imaginative works without any restrictions. To have a whole life, one must have the possibility of publicly shaping and expressing private worlds, dreams, thoughts and desires, of constantly having access to a dialogue between the public and private worlds. How else do we know that we have existed, felt, desired, hated, feared? — Azar Nafisi

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The highly respected macroeconomist Jeffrey Sachs has recently made an impassioned and well-argued case in his book The Price of Civilization that mindfulness needs to be at the heart of any attempt to resolve the major problems we face as a country and, by implication, as a world. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mitt Romney and his family have a big two-day weekend plan. They're going to hike to the top of his money. — David Letterman