Lindhout Book Quotes & Sayings

You're a woman, use it; bring every man you meet to his motherfucking knees.

-My mother — Unknown

Some of us, white and black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation. If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name.

If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own - which it is - and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. — James Baldwin

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. — Walt Whitman

There's this thing you're supposed to be part of in London. But what is it? That's the million-dollar question. Everyone's there because they're searching, aspiring. A very small percentage is actually living the dream. Ill, tired, unhappy, the rent is fucking loads, what is it you're getting? The idea of it, or something. — Craig Taylor

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. — Elliott Abrams

Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life seemingly precious, but not deeply appreciated. — Sunday Adelaja

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live. — Amanda Lindhout

"I accept your condemnation," I said. — Gabrielle Zevin

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated the lesson of history. — Russell Baker

I no longer have it (desire to play). — Joe DiMaggio

The old master oil paintings were usually done in transparent oil colors on top of a black-and-white underpainting, which was often painted in egg temperas. My version of this technique was to start with a watercolor underpainting, which is fast drying like tempera, but I have an easier time controlling it. Then I seal the underpainting with a coat of clear, matte acrylic medium. That keeps the oil paints, which come next, from soaking into the paper, where they would turn dull and flat. Instead, thin layers of transparent oil paint can be smoothed into glowing colors and bold, glossy surfaces, with a depth and space that I don't think can be gotten any other way. It isn't easy to do, but when it works, the results can still surprise me. — Paul O. Zelinsky

The people we see do not seem to be as happy as we are. They look like they are sad, and in a hurry. They all look down at their phones and do not talk to each other. — Paul Nelson

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better. — Muriel Barbery

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. — Daniel Keyes

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. — Anna Deavere Smith