Illuder Quotes & Sayings

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation. — Karen Joy Fowler

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon. — Ray Bradbury

Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers — KRS-One

A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one. — Seneca.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. — Alan Kay

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree. — Hill Harper

There is no greater terror than the fear of death. But, as a Christian, you are learning to die daily. Thus, when the actual time comes for your spirit to leave your body, you will have already gained the victory over its sting. — Alicia A. Willis

I'm not gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. I'm not patient by nature, but I can be patient by obedience. I'm not peaceful by nature, but I can be peaceful by obedience. — Lysa TerKeurst

The sperm whales' network of female-based family unit resembled, to a remarkable extent, the community the whalemen had left back home on Nantucket. In both societies the males were itinerants. In their dedication to killing sperm whales the Nantucketers had developed a system of social relationships that mimicked those of their prey. — Nathaniel Philbrick

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry. — Gillian Jacobs

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. — Winston Churchill

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day. — Erykah Badu