Purveyor 24 Quotes & Sayings

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do. — Walter Dean Myers

I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall. — Felipe Esparza

A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics'] is quite unintelligible to the vast majority of men, since that majority has never known wealth or the comforts of life; and to despise suffering would mean to despise life itself, since the whole existence of man is made up of the sensations of hunger, cold, injury, loss, and a Hamlet-like dread of death. — Anton Chekhov

To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange — Vincent Van Gogh

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way. — Robert Breault

See your misfortunes as blessings. — Marshall Sylver

You know what I've learned in the process? How important it is not to allow either the highs or the lows in life to determine who you are. — Tim Tebow

You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to climb up out of some deep, really deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside. I got to get outside. — James Baldwin

How wonderful it is to celebrate a 27 years career! When you moved from basket ball to music, the world of sports lost a great player, but music won a great singer. You transmit good vibrations, a wonderful energy on the stage. — Simone Bittencourt De Oliveira

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason? — John Locke