Ouassim Quotes & Sayings

They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold. — Nalo Hopkinson

That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears. — Erica Jong

You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them. — Joel Osteen

I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that. — Bart Yates

Elegancy, is a good Meen and Address given to Matter, be it by proper or figurative Speech: Where the Words are apt, and allusions very natural, Certainly it has a moving Grace: But it is too artificial for Simplicity, and oftentimes for Truth. The Danger is, lest it delude the Weak, who in such Cases may mistake the Handmaid for the Mistress, if not Error for Truth. — Various

Chances of the Jews and Palestinians uniting to build the first interfaith space station are roughly equal. — Stephen King

my knight in shining armour turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil. — Cheryl Lee

My necessities were books. I read a book at school, another to and from school, yet another at the beach, which was the closest escape from my father's dying. Though when I walked alone it was far. Though I wasn't allowed to walk alone when younger - so young that my concern wasn't the danger to myself but to the books I'd bring, because they weren't mine, they were everyone's, entrusted to me in return for exemplary behavior, and if I lost even a single book, or let even its corner get nicked by a jitney, the city would come, the city itself, and lock me up in that grim brick jail that, in every feature, resembled the library. — Joshua Cohen

All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla. — Rick Ross

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing. — Constance Zimmer

You do not install knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming

Ought the just to injure any one at all? — Plato