Morrisania Bronx Quotes & Sayings

I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing. — Stephanie Courtney

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me. — Mae West

People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they're wrong. Within the context of their reality they feel just as right, as you do within the context of your reality. Appreciate and respect that and perhaps in time you'll find even ground. — Deon Potgieter

People without memory are putty. — Naomi Klein

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction. — Fran Lebowitz

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting. — Nina Bawden

Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell. — Ian Shoales

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing. — John Currin

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home. — Barbara Corcoran

The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is ... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem. — Clay Shirky

But what's all this about not being able to die, live, be born? That must have some bearing. All this about staying where you are, dying, living, being born, unable to go forwards or back, not knowing where you came from, or where you are, or where you're going, or that it's possible to be elsewhere, to be otherwise? Supposing nothing, asking yourself nothing? You can't, you're there. — Samuel Beckett

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms - and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too - end up in their shadow. — Catherynne M Valente