Lection Quotes & Sayings

Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed. — Brian Wong

So many women don't have voices in their governments. — Sarah Gavron

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure. — Frederick Lenz

A lot of people who wanted to audition for 'Idol' have asked me: "What should I do?" or "How to I prepare myself?" I always told them: "Just go in and believe in yourself." — Jessica Sanchez

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die. — Stephen Furst

In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life. — Kyung-Sook Shin

I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him
that's what I say, and you may lay to it. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad. — T-Pain

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years.
It is a book to be memorized. — Gary Lutz

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe. — Peter Mandelson

Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead of the old stab of pain. "Am I forgetting him?" she thought. "In time to come, will it be hard to remember anything about him? I guess it's like Granma Mary Rommely says: 'With time, passes all.' The first year was hard because we could say last 'lection he voted. Last Thanksgiving he ate with us. But next year it will be two years ago that he ... and as time passes it will be harder and harder to remember and keep track. — Betty Smith

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. — Leslie Fiedler

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next. — Jean Hanff Korelitz