Jamaican Patwa Quotes & Sayings

I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it. — Mike Patton

By 1988, I was living in New York myself. — Ira Sachs

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. — Neil Gaiman

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'. — Joseph Henry Blackburne

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men. — Sandra Cisneros

In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost. — Bryan Ward-Perkins

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it. — Jeannette Walls

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale. — Robert Burns

Love isn't meant to be hidden away. Life is too short for shame. — Jay Bell

None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female's psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what's central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. — Norman Buckley

Today Tibe said he loves me, that he wants to marry me. I do not believe him. Why would he want such a thing? I am no one of consequence. No great beauty or intellect, no strength or power to aid his reign. I bring nothing to him but worry and weight. He needs someone strong at his side, a person who laughs at the gossips and overcomes her own doubts. Tibe is as weak as I am, a lonely boy without a path of his own. I will only make things worse. I will only bring him pain. How can I do that? — Victoria Aveyard

All that St. Kilda's gloss, that walk through old oak doors like you belong, effortless: I wanted that. I wanted to lick it off my banged-up fists along with my enemy's blood. This — Tana French

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place. — Elliott Smith

Hello my lovely, Hello my sweetheart.
Can you see me in the dark?
When you walk alone in the park.
Will you remember the smell of my touch?
Will you know the touch of my breath?
Will you see the pulse of my life?
When you feel the blade of my knife. — Daniel Dark