Maisha Winn Quotes & Sayings

You're a chip shot away from everything you've ever wanted. — Robert G. Allen

If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus. — Steve Maraboli

That's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise. — John Brockman

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife. — Thomas Merton

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain. — Taylor Swift

The history of the Christian movement is nothing if not the history of Christians struggling to be faithful to God's Spirit as that Spirit is made manifest in new and surprising ways in new and surprising contexts. — Stephen B. Bevans

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are? — Zooey Deschanel

How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at the end-of-the-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease. It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet. — Julian Barnes

Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson

Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead. — Rebecca McNutt

In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition. — Erik Naggum

...girl reached across her desk and pulled the computer keyboard over. "What's his name?" she said. "Crowley," Julianna said, surprised. "Christopher Wayne Crowley." "I shouldn't do this." The girl looked back up at Genevieve and laughed. "But fuck it, right?" Genevieve's disappearance from the state fair had been news for about a day. Okay, maybe for a couple of weeks. She was beautiful - the Daily Oklahoman ran her picture with every story, a photo of her from the previous year's U. S. Grant High School yearbook. Genevieve had thought the photo... — Lou Berney

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches. — Ariel Sharon

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta. — Aldous Huxley

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. — Eddie Bernice Johnson