Maybellene Quotes & Sayings

It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird. — Boris Johnson

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things. — Jean Rhys

There is this one photograph ... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i'll try. if you listen to the song "asleep," and you think about those pretty weather days that make you remember things, and you think about the prettiest eyes you've known, and you cry and the person holds you back, then i think you will see the photograph. — Stephen Chbosky

We cannot withdraw love without damaging ourselves. I have been badly hurt again but I see this morning that it does not really matter because I perceive the truth. Rage is the deprived infant in me but there is also a compassionate mother in me and she will come back with her healing powers in time. — May Sarton

The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time. — C. K. Prahalad

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself. — Robert Schumann

It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life. — Bjork

Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution. — Charles Mingus

Maybellene, why can't you be true? — Chuck Berry

Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it. — William Shakespeare

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. — Dolly Parton

you kiss strangers without a thought in the world with all the passion of a submissive who hasn't been granted the privilege of an orgasm for weeks. — Becca Jameson

Put tradition first, and scripture will be muzzled and faded. Put scripture first, and tradition will come to new life. Better — N. T. Wright

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. — Malala Yousafzai

The first one to bed always lit the candle, and the last one turned out the lamp ... The tradition had seen them through quite a bit by now, and Rebecca had come to love the candlelight, not only because it meant that Mike loved to see her just the way she was, which was incredibly liberating once you began to actually believe it, but also because the light just felt holy to her. It made the end of the day into a kind of prayer, whether they made love or just lay in each other's arms and chewed over the day's portion of craziness; and there was that beautiful little puff of "Amen" when they blew the candle out and settled into sleep. — Tim Farrington

Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39 — Niall Ferguson