Paultre Bell Quotes & Sayings

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice ... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other. — William C. Bryant

Perhaps they'll say, These things are not real. They are phantasmagoria. They were made by dreams, and now that no one is dreaming them any longer they are crumbling away. — Margaret Atwood

It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it. — Alex Gaskarth

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either. — Meg Cabot

I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of. — John Mulaney

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive. — Andrew Bird

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it. — Miguel De Cervantes

Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see. — Berkeley Rice

I've thought about you every day ... I've dreamt about you every night. — S.C. Stephens

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. — Alice Childress

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist. — Leif Garrett

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader. — Michael Scott

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends. — Joel Plaskett

It's because ... you see, if we had souls, which we haven't, and if our souls met
yours and mine
they'd fight to the death. But after they had torn each other to pieces, to the very bottom, they'd see that they had the same root. — Ayn Rand

Eventually I found my way out of the alley. The laughter had died down and I knew there was a foreboding wave of darkness waiting for me. I wondered why, when I had feelings of intense joy or happiness, I could always sense that black wave, cresting above and threatening to crash down on me at any time but, when I was actually having one of my sad spells, it felt like it was never going to end - like I would never get the happiness back. — Andersen Prunty