Instanteye Quotes & Sayings

The children I describe here have horizontal conditions that are alien to their parents. They are deaf or dwarfs; they have Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; they are prodigies; they are people conceived in rape or who commit crimes; they are transgender. The timeworn adage says that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, meaning that a child resembles his or her parents; these children are apples that have fallen elsewhere - some a couple of orchards away, some on the other side of the world. Yet myriad families learn to tolerate, accept, and finally celebrate children who are not what they originally had in mind. — Andrew Solomon

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu. — Jerry Seinfeld

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! — Jimmy Breslin

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin. — Dwight L. Moody

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are — Jonathon Porritt

Good things don't happen very fast. They need to build, little by little, over a long period of time. — Tassa Desalada

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day. — Thalia

When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames. — Olga Kurylenko

I didn't say anything, and he asked me again if i wanted to be pals. I said it was fine with me: he seemed pleased. — Albert Camus

She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness. — Alaa Al Aswany

But most Canadians, like most Americans, have a shockingly poor grasp of their own history. Dates, people, the large and small nuances of events have all been reduced to the form and content of Classic Comics. This isn't a complaint. It's an acknowledgment that people are busy with other things and generally glance at the past only on holidays. Given our hectic schedules, the least I can do is to provide a little historical background so no one will feel left out when our story gets complicated. — Thomas King

It was hard to imagine feeling that magical tingling sensation in the pit of her belly anytime soon. Best not to worry about it, she thought. She didn't need it. Well. She didn't want to need it. Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
Be that cat!!! she wrote, drawing it into the corner of her page, cool and aloof. — Laini Taylor

Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression. — Jim Powell

I said nothing of the sort. — Mark Twain