Jelatas Quotes & Sayings

They were waiting for me in the books and in stories, after all, hiding inside the twenty six characters and a handful of punctuation marks. These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal the motives and minds of insects and of cats. They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books. — Neil Gaiman

I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there. — Charlie Adam

punch line: The most basic way to make people care is to form an association between something they don't yet care about and something they do care about. — Chip Heath

I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I think we've moved beyond that Africans vs. African Americans. They may have more issues with us than we do with them. — Mo Abudu

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60. — Nora Ephron

I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my lunch. I'm also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn't consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers. — Adrian Tomine

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe. — Katarina Bivald

You couldn't keep up with me. Don't forget, the Energizer was my granddaddy. — Eve Langlais

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble. — James A. Baldwin

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat? — Sam Ewing

Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. — Octavia Butler

I warned you about those sexually graphic descriptions. Now you've alienated our only breakfast friend, a homophobic Republican on crack. — Edmond Manning

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors. — William Shakespeare

I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass - our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you're imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you're saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I mean? — John Green