Jamilacuisine Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe one writes for oneself. I think that writing is an act of love- you write in order to give something to someone else. To communicate something. to have other people share your feelings. This problem of how long your work survives is fundamental for a novelist or a poet. One hopes for a sense of continuity. — Umberto Eco

Ozorne, my precious, where are you?
- Rikash Moonsword — Tamora Pierce

To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure your happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory. And if some people on youtube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is; Do whatever you have to do to be happy. — Dan Howell

Do not hide your light, let it shine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try different soaps all the time, but I use very mild ones. — Marie Helvin

Life ain't all blow jobs and ice cream. Sometimes it's a shit sandwich and a kick in the nuts. — Matt Cole

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. — Lawana Blackwell

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse. — Tibor Fischer

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars. — Mario Andretti

In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan — Ignazio Silone

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes. — Oswald Chambers

My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light. — Frederick Lenz

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they couldn't do a problem finally began to study why not. They then turned it around the other way and said, "But of course, this is what it is" and got an important result. — Richard Hamming

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific. — Margaret Mead