Petracca Fruit Quotes & Sayings

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position. — Jeanette Winterson

I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel. — Arnon Milchan

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints — Gyan Nagpal

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel. — El DeBarge

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. — Elbert Hubbard

It would be hard to be deader without special training. — Terry Pratchett

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now. — Boris Becker

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. — Douglas R. Hofstadter

He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into his life, like rats into a ruined house — F Scott Fitzgerald

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying! — Jack LaLanne

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood. — Deb Caletti

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together. — Octavia E. Butler

I let myself exist mainly through my children ... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era. — Rand Paul

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room. — Blake Bailey