Muhammad Ali Audio Quotes & Sayings

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night. — Albert Camus

I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire. — Jodi Meadows

She was smiling. It was a smile Steve knew very well. The kind of smile from a girl that implied, if you answered in the affirmative, she'd see you in a way you always wish you saw yourself. — Josh Malerman

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice. — Nikki Giovanni

People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control. — George Carlin

I start off my morning with an Acai berry smoothie. I blend the Acai berries with kefir, blueberries, protein powder and peanut butter. I like this first thing in the morning because it's light on my stomach. — Charity Shea

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have. — Michael Cudlitz

It is a level of psychic pain holy incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self's most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul. — David Foster Wallace

Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ... — Ayn Rand

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So ... you're black.' — Al Roker

Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all. — Paul Bowles