Kristys Whistle Quotes & Sayings

To refuse to respond is in itself a response. — Madeleine L'Engle

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn. — Kanye West

His tone is mild, but there is, and always has been, something a little deeper and more resonant about his voice. It has a slightly different timbre than more voices. Its the kind of thing you forget until you hear it again and remember. Oh yes, His voice has music. — Ally Condie

They felt a strange happiness, an urgent need to reveal their hearts to each other- the urgency of lovers, which is already a gift, the very first one, the gift of the soul before the body surrenders. 'Know me, look at me. This is who I am. This is how I have lived, this is what I have loved. And you? What about you, my darling? — Irene Nemirovsky

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff in to satisfy an urge or something we savor to feed us physically and sustain us spiritually? — Mary DeTurris Poust

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. — Gerald M. Loeb

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off. — David Byrne

I love a house project. — Melissa McCarthy

When young and clever men are angry, they either explode or achieve great things. — Julian Fellowes

Nay! At least you are valiant. Beyond all whom I have met. And they lie who say that we of our part do not honour the valour of foes. See now! I offer you freedom. — J.R.R. Tolkien

One hundred twenty-nine women with documented histories of sexual victimization in childhood were interviewed and asked about abuse history. Seventeen years following the initial report of the abuse, 80 of the women recalled the victimization. One in 10 women (16% of those who recalled the abuse) reported that at some time in the past they had forgotten about the abuse. Those with a prior period of forgetting--the women with "recovered memories"--were younger at the time of abuse and were less likely to have received support from their mothers than the women who reported that they had always remembered their victimization. The women who had recovered memories and those who had always remembered had the same number of discrepancies when their accounts of the abuse were compared to the reports from the early 1970s.

Recovered memories of abuse in women with documented child sexual victimization histories.
Journal of Traumatic Stress. 1995 Oct;8(4):649-73. — Linda M. Williams

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize. — Julia Leigh

What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin. — Helen Frankenthaler

If your hair is done properly you can get away with anything — Iris Apfel