Littlefeather Academy Quotes & Sayings

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills. — Philippa Perry

We do not have forever to say whatever. For with every single day that goes by, the odds of our opinion(s) being read or heard diminishes. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet. — Toni Morrison

When I was fifteen or sixteen I carried around in the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's 'Republic', front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. How much I wanted an older person to notice me carrying it and be impressed, to pat me on the shoulder and say... I didn't know what exactly.

from: 'The Examined Life, Philosophical Meditations — Robert Nozick

You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him! — Emily Bronte

He peered down at me. "Jesus Christ. You're leaking."
If by "leaking" he meant "sobbing like a girl," I guess so. — Lili St. Crow

Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate ... ) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves. — African Spir

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness. — Joseph Joubert

I have had my share of trouble and sickness but always somewhere in me there is a little spot of warmth and joy to make it all easier, like a traveler's fire burning out in the wilderness on a cold night. — Joanna Russ

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards. — Sacheen Littlefeather

A second chance? I thought. A second chance is what criminals get. I knew I wasn't a criminal; I did what I had to do to survive and save my family. — Yeonmi Park

And in it's magical pattern there was now a new element, a new glow, a cast of a golden colour which suffused everything, the source of which was a character in a book he had half read of and would never finish. He was not interested in what happened to Jay Gatsby. He was only interested that Jay Gatsby should exist. — Peter Carey