Ngouandjika Quotes & Sayings

A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can't enter a restroom. — Ken Follett

Although she'd never believe it, those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside. — Alice Hoffman

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it? — Twiggy

Fuck the past. This was the present. — Maggie Stiefvater

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. — Laird Barron

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist. — Alan Greenspan

Beauty is whatever gives joy. — Hugh Nibley

"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is." — Joseph Campbell

Prices too that day indicated the state of affairs. The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept rising, but the value of paper money and city articles kept falling, so that by midday there were instances of carters removing valuable goods, such as cloth, and receiving in payment a half of what they carted, while peasant horses were fetching five hundred rubles each, and furniture, mirrors, and bronzes were being given away for nothing. — Leo Tolstoy

...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing. — George R R Martin