Mochonna Quotes & Sayings

To a Western observer, schooled in the theory and practice of Western freedom, it is precisely the lack of freedom - freedom of the mind from constraint and indoctrination, to question and inquire and speak; freedom of the economy from corrupt and pervasive mismanagement; freedom of women from male oppression; freedom of citizens from tyranny - that underlies so many of the troubles of the Muslim world. But the road to democracy, as the Western experience amply demonstrates, is long and hard, full of pitfalls and obstacles. Page 115 — Bernard Lewis

I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter what I draw, it always looks like it comes from a children's book. I can't resist. I'll set out to paint a serious picture then think, "Well, maybe there would be a little bunny in that corner." — Jan Brett

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one. — Franklyn Ajaye

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her. — Hans Christian Andersen

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt. — Michael B. Jordan

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. — Sarah Jessica Parker

When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight. — Debasish Mridha

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do. — Dale Carnegie

and giving him such small gifts as he would accept, — J.R.R. Tolkien

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell. — Robert M. Pirsig

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the
more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability. — Albert Einstein

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious. — John Burdett