Ilyasah Quotes & Sayings

Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height ... Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art. — Alan Judd

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. — Alex Faickney Osborn

She's the sort of girl who gets high easily, off the music, off a moment. Maybe I was like that when I first came down the Hill. All wide-eyed and trying to take it all in. Everything was exciting. — Ilyasah Shabazz

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive. — Frederick Lenz

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate. — Gisela Stuart

What's strange is, the people who want to be in the position are never asked to be in the position. Like, if you don't want to do something, then people really want you to do it. And the more you say, "No, really, I'm sorry, it's really not for me," the more they want to convince you that it is, in fact, for you, and that you'd be absolutely perfect. — David Sedaris

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you. — Sam Elliott

When I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ... — John Geddes

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The animal I wanted
Couldn't get into the world
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life — Kenneth Patchen

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear. — Kingsley Amis

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious. — Clarence Darrow

Life is not a destination; it is a journey. Faith makes everything possible. In order to succeed in life, we must first believe that we can. — Ilyasah Shabazz