Mama Dee Quotes & Sayings

The human heart is a dark forest — Tobias Wolff

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two. — W. Somerset Maugham

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark. — Tim McCarver

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body. — Larenz Tate

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? — Leo Tolstoy

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. — Toni Morrison

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government. — Paul Craig Roberts

And here I would note the great benefit of party distinctions in saving the people at large the trouble of thinking. Hesiod divides mankind into three classes - those who think for themselves, those who think as others think, and those who do not think at all. The second class comprises the great mass of society; for most people require a set creed and a file-leader. Hence the origin of party, which means a large body of people, some few of whom think, and all the rest talk. The former take the lead and discipline the latter, prescribing what they must say, what they must approve, what they must hoot at, whom they must support, but, above all, whom they must hate; for no one can be a right good partisan who is not a thoroughgoing hater. — Washington Irving

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. — Naguib Mahfouz

Fame has replaced the sea as the element of choice for adventure. — Alan Moore

I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits. — Lisa Alther

Words have meanings.When we call something a theory in science, it means something. Reggie, when you say that you 'can't help yourself' if a girl is wasted, that means something,too.You're saying that our natural state as men is 'rapist'. — Aaron Hartzler

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself. — Kris Carr

If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm. — Sharon Jones

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. — Roger Ebert