Lashawnda Johnson Quotes & Sayings

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. — Camille Paglia

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth. — Justin Vernon

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. — Jimmy Connors

But how shall I tell you all these things," he said, the line of his mouth twisting. "And then say to you
it is only you I have ever loved? How should you believe me?"
The question hung in the air between us, shimmering like the reflection from the water below.
"If you say it," I said, "I'll believe you." ...
"Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie - and yet ye love me."
I did touch him then.
"Jamie," I said softly, and laid my hand on his arm. "You aren't alone anymore. — Diana Gabaldon

Straight edge means I'm better than you. — CM Punk

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers ... Or doesn't answer. — Hillary Scott

I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid. — Anna Kendrick

No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation. — Thomas Pynchon

I wanted to lie in bed with her at night, and bemoan the ordeal of planning a wedding. I wanted it all. — Christina Lauren

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain. — Sophie Kinsella

The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric. — Meena Alexander

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me. — BD Wong

Luther's maxim, To have prayed well is to have studied well. — E. M. Bounds