Josanne Mark Quotes & Sayings

Imagination - that's the future for us. — Jan Brett

Part of my life is saving life. — Dith Pran

Don't be afraid. My telling can't hurt you in spite of what I have done and I promise to lie quietly in the dark - weeping perhaps or occasionally seeing the blood once more - but I will never again unfold my limbs to rise up and bare teeth. I explain. You can think what I tell you a confession, if you like, but one full of curiosities familiar only in dreams and during those moments when a dog's profile plays in the steam of a kettle. Or when a corn-husk doll sitting on a shelf is soon splaying in the corner of a room and the wicked of how it got there is plain. Stranger things happen all the time everywhere. You know. I know you know. One question is who is responsible? Another is can you read? — Toni Morrison

You can't live by other's expectations of you. — Laury Falter

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic. — Pico Iyer

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. — Hyman George Rickover

I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can. — Tom Weston-Jones

There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own. — Erika Johansen

Still following the rules, huh?" He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on.
"Still breaking them?" she fired back. — Robin Bielman

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig. — Bill Bryson

In the beginning - and neither can this be overstated - a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has done, that the attempt of white people to destroy him - for that is what it is - is utterly gratuitous, it is not hard for him to think of white people as devils. — James Baldwin

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's. — David Sedaris

[...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...] — Jose Saramago

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees. — Ron Suskind