Juventinos Quotes & Sayings

It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take a second look and say, 'No, you more like Five Past Twelve. — Samuel Selvon

Then it comes. Your lungs suck in air; your body decides for you.

You will live.

You're one breath away from her, then two, then three, then four, then five.

Mom, I am still breathing. — Virginia Bergin

I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy. — Christopher Hitchens

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them. — Terry McMillan

I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you. — DeAngelo Williams

I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff. — Ja Rule

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. — Linus Torvalds

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about. — Joan Juliet Buck

A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think. — Cathleen Schine

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters. — Dallas Willard

And in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
The Grapes Of Wrath — John Steinbeck

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing. — Christopher Walken

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. — Albert Camus

Sometimes, Johannes would pop his head in the filing room and ask, "Need anything?"
'Yes. I would like you to ravage me here on the floor and swear your undying love to me.'"No. Thanks. I'm good. — Libba Bray

It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials. — Sigfried Giedion