Langata High School Quotes & Sayings

I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately. — Jess Walter

There is no rerun of life. Rejoice while breathe. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. — Cecil Beaton

But I wasn't back in time. I was now. — Jodi Meadows

Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke. — Richard Price

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had. — David Millar

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go. — John Masefield

Harper, I ... "
You don't have to say it."
I don't?"
I know."
You know what?"
I lean against him, nestling in the crook of his arm. I talk into his neck. I don't need to be able to see to find the parts of him I know.
That morning in the trailer, when we had it to ourselves, and you made me breakfast, I wondered whether you would tell me you loved me, if you'd ever tell me, and I looked at you, and I thought you were going to say it, but instead you went off on a tangent about boysenberry jam."
And?"
And it was funny. And it was close enough to the real thing for me. Just sitting there with you like that."
Boysenberry jam?"
Boysenberry jam."
Harper," he whispers into my hair.
Yeah?"
I boysenberry jam you. — Dana Reinhardt

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. — William Blackstone

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void. — Jindrich Styrsky

But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of his letters, of Mozart. How was it with him in his day? Who controlled things in his times and ruled the roost and gave the tone and counted for something? Was it Mozart or the business people, Mozart or the average man? And in what fashion did he come to die and be buried? And perhaps, I mean, it has always been the same and always will be ... Time and the world, money and power belong to the small people and the shallow people. To the rest, to the real men belongs nothing. — Hermann Hesse

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. — Ezra Stiles

New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again. — Peter Cameron

The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that. — Andre Ward