Millsaps Email Quotes & Sayings

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints. — Jennifer Egan

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey. — Gerry Rafferty

It might therefore be better for the decentralization to be designed by a centralized authority, with the interest of the less advantaged or less powerful in mind. Power to the people, but not all the power. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from the President of France. (His wife had put on her tiara to listen to the call on an extension.) — Peter Dickinson

Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny. — Rick Warren

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Time' is actually the best gift, given to us by our Creator. — Norhafsah Hamid

He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become. — Kate Atkinson

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. — Carl Sandburg

I have seen the Virgin
in an appletree at Chartres
And Saint Joan burn
at the Bella Union.
I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
I have seen the Venus Aphrodite
armless in her drafty corridor.
I have heard a siren sing
at One Fifth Avenue.
I have seen the White Goddess dancing
in the Rue des Beaux Arts
on the Fourteenth of July
and the Beautiful Dame Without Mercy
picking her nose in Chumley's. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

That's the thing with women's movies - there's so much about kind of catfighting. And my experience is women aren't - look, we all get in fights with people, but it's not that face-to-face aggression. — Paul Feig

It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo! — Ricky Gervais