Lavonne Hayes Quotes & Sayings

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. — Dave Eggers

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. — Ellen Key

Is this love? Does love need to hurt this much? Or is this a forced kind of love that slaughters all involved? — Tali Alexander

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me. — Gautama Buddha

For Orwell, the loss of a life was the loss of a mind was the loss of a world, and the world we inhabit is poorer for each loss, for the contributions that mind could have made. — Josh Hanagarne

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about! — Rita Dove

I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip. — Laura Mvula

Life doesn't just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions. — Justin S. Holcomb

One good idea is better than a thousand poor ones. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany. — Annie Dillard