Panizza Miami Quotes & Sayings

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent. — Chris Abani

Thoughts are the great purveyors of the soul to bring in provision to satisfy its affections; and if sin remain unmortified in the heart, they must ever and anon53 be making provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. They must glaze, adorn, and dress the objects of the flesh, and bring them home to give satisfaction; and this they are able to do, in the service of a defiled imagination, beyond all expression. — John Owen

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation. — Natasha Leggero

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. — Thucydides

But you cannot change your nature. If you are a lonely creature, this cannot be undone. Something will always crop up to remind you. — Adrienne Celt

There's life time and then there's theater time. On time in the theater means fifteen minutes early.
Oh. So they're all early in life time but just on time in theater time. Got it. — Suzanne M. Trauth

Downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together). — Michelle Alexander

I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."
Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me."
"I thought you'd appreciate it."
"Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you."
"You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up. — Richelle Mead

Let's just put it this way: I don't think I'll be able to twerk my way out of this. - Don't know what twerk means, Melanthe. - — Kresley Cole

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. — Tim O'Reilly

Bite me, damn it, or I'll kick you in the balls so hard, you'll scream into the next century! — Tina Folsom

The measure of a man, she said finally, is not the words that mark his end, but everything he's done since his beginning. — T.J. Klune