Melissa Camp Quotes & Sayings

Don't hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed. — Anonymous

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school. — Melissa Rauch

Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation. — Thich Nhat Hanh

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word "patriarchy." Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named? — Bell Hooks

If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you'll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you need to the extent to which you lag behind what others have. — Seneca.

But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while. — Melissa Tagg

As more kids piled on and the bus started up, she stared out the window at the place where she'd done so much growing up. When she'd first come to camp, she couldn't believe she was setting foot on Camp Lakeview, or any camp grounds at all, for that matter.
Now she couldn't believe she was leaving. — Melissa J. Morgan

Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can't hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn't me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity. — Julie Farrell

When i look into your eyes
There's nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes
Staring back at me
Asking whyyyy?!?! — Linkin Park

With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do. — Marc Guggenheim

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining. — Saul Bellow

They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster. — Matthew Inman

Following Alyssa, they all walked over to the green clearing in front of the mess hall. It was where they'd held most of the all-camp activities, like games. Jenna sighed, remembering all the good times she'd had there---the gossip, the giggles, the crazy conversations. — Melissa J. Morgan

Everybody prayed; everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights. — Sherman Alexie

Jenna nodded, wiping tears away with the back of her hand. She leaned toward David and they hugged again. "I was never okay with losing you," she said quietly. "You know that, right? — Melissa J. Morgan

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television. — Mindy Cohn

Strange how one minute life was a certain way and then it was another, and you couldn't remember what you'd done to make it all happen. — Justin Cronin

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that. — Yolanda Adams

The flowers themselves were strong and hardy. They filled the green with color and thrived on Camp Lakeview's land. Together. They spent the summer, and every summer thereafter, swaying lazily in the breeze, frozen in time. — Melissa J. Morgan

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists. — Estelle Parsons

Doubtless any horoscope seems "true" if it tells that you are highly attractive to the opposite sex and your worst fault is generosity. — George Orwell