Mitla Quotes & Sayings

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. — David Bailey

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina ... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period. — Leon Uris

The end of the caterpillar is the beginning of the butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. — Karen Horney

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Someday we'll look back on all of this and we won't even believe we were here," she whispered. "We'll say, 'Do you remember when we used to live in Iowa?'" I smiled, warm, already falling back to sleep. I told her, "We'll say, 'That happened during the Iowa years. — Ann Patchett

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters? — Storm Jameson

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work. — Sam Branson

None of them had cars, either. There was no future in which most of these families would ever have cars. There was maybe one car for every thousand people, yet almost everyone had a driveway. It was almost like building the driveway was a way of willing the car to happen. The story of Soweto is the story of the driveways. It's a hopeful place. - — Trevor Noah

The day when you find your true love, the day when you loose your virginity, the day when you buy a car or a house are often consider as the most important day of ones life but for me the most important day is when you find why you were born. — Mayank Kashyap

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me. — Susan Polis Schutz