Mbenga Ya Quotes & Sayings

When they'd settled into bed last night, everything had seemed good and safe. Yeah, maybe this was worse, to have that suddenly taken away. — James Dashner

A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up. — Jamaica Kincaid

My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier. I keep it beside me to make me feel less alone, unless I feel like making myself feel lonely. It can make me feel connected and unloved, ugly and important, sad and vindicated. — Amy Poehler

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man's audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty. — Maxim Gorky

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. — Muhammad Ali

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can. — Zig Ziglar

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret. — Tim O'Brien

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago, — Hugh Hefner

Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time. — Jackie Gayle

What barely seemed to register with him was that those regular people were earning large sums of money off him, off the Dutchman with his summer home and his money, and it was in part for that reason that they continued to exercise a modicum of courtesy. — Herman Koch

As long as I'm alive, I can think what I want, when I want, any way I want, as much as I want, and nobody can tell me any different — Haruki Murakami