Laynie Newsome Quotes & Sayings

In the dark, all cats are grey. — Benjamin Franklin

Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia. — Lucille Clifton

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists. — Trey Parker

The peace within you is stronger than any storm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. — Kate Beckinsale

Later, I would hear it in Dad's voice - "Either I can beat him, or the police." Maybe that saved me. Maybe it didn't. All I know is, the violence rose from the fear like smoke from a fire, and I cannot say whether that violence, even administered in fear and love, sounded the alarm or choked us at the exit. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

People living in different places invent different words for things, and then the words control how they think. The Masai people, for instance, do not have a word that means 'the future.' Therefore, when they talk of time, they always talk about the present time.
Hope, for example, lives in the future. The things one hopes for are always things in the future. So the Masai people may never have felt hope, since they have no idea of a future.
But, if the Masai live without hope, they also live without fear. For fear is always about the future, too.

-Herr Winteler — Robert Cwiklik

The writing is definitely on the wall and no matter how pretty the ink looks, it will still bleed through and stain the layers beneath permanently. — K. Bromberg

I was taught that pain is bad. — Keith Miller

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God. — Thomas Harris

Obedience is the basic definition of worship. Like obedience, worship is to be a way of life rather than just an exercise on Sunday. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation. — Jeffrey Lang

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids. — Rodman Philbrick

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback. — Claire Messud

Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution. — Roustam Tariko