Obaluaye Quotes & Sayings

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way. — Ned Vizzini

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy. — Luigi Veronelli

No one wants to hear about your faith. They must see it. — Karen Kingsbury

He had only thought, and Wolsey had only thought, that the Emperor and Spain would be against it. Only the Emperor. He smiles in the dark, hands behind his head. He doesn't say which people, but waits for Liz to tell him. 'All women,' she says. 'All women everywhere in England. All women who have a daughter but not a son. All women who have lost a child. All women who have lost any hope of having a child. All women who are forty. — Hilary Mantel

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long. — Michael Wood

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars. — Alan S. Kesselheim

I was planning to sort my comic books based on level of second wave feminist influence." "As opposed to first wave?" "Yes, well, Susan B. Anthony laid the foundation for those who have come after. It's all really interrelated but she didn't have direct influence over late twentieth century comics. — Penny Reid

The difference between Selling and Helping is just two letters. — Jay Baer

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. — Alan Turing

Time does not exist, except in the passing of days. — Norman Revill