Oduyebo Quotes & Sayings

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch? — Sloane Crosley

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were. — Ann Leckie

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. — Chris Christie

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on. — Holly Hood

You need a bad operation.
Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame. — Kool Keith

After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

This was the last party Mrs. Radford would attend in San Francisco. One month later she left on a boat filled with missionaries going to Hawaii. One year later she was one of only seven white women in Edo, Japan. From there she sailed to Russia; from there she made her way to Peking. She died somewhere near Chunking at the age of seventy-four. — Karen Joy Fowler

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me. — Mark E. Smith

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle. — Lena Dunham

Loneliness, maybe. Or aloneness. The way I don't fit here or there. My — Yaa Gyasi

I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head. — Margaret Atwood

We worship Satan and only eat GMO foods. All hail Monsanto! — Jon Konrath

The best way to overcome fear is to start doing what you are afraid of. — Sunday Adelaja

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?"
"In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints. — Sarah Dessen