Maiesha Roebuck Quotes & Sayings

I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry. — Erland Josephson

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights. — Jenim Dibie

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as
the image of my father, whose life
was spent like this,
thinking of death, to the exclusion
of other sensual matters,
so in the end that life
was easy to give up, since
it contained nothing: even
my mother's voice couldn't make him
change or turn back
as he believed
that once you can't love another human being
you have no place in the world. — Louise Gluck

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. — Franklin P. Jones

He played with abandon and he looked like a god. — Kylie Scott

Your first lesson: My studio is not a democracy. Have a donut. — Jandy Nelson

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Lots of men hate women now-a-days ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making. — Phyllis Bottome

Do whatever you like, go wherever you want, love however you feel it to be true. For if you wait, life won't do the same — Russ

If Ralphie's form of adventuresome was grunting out, "Hold onto somethin'," for foreplay then, sure, he was one wild boy. — Linda Kage

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career. — Michael Koryta

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank ... Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government. — Jim Borgman

Rest, nature, books, music ... such is my idea of happiness. — Leo Tolstoy