Quinette Quotes & Sayings

It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye. — Sara Sheridan

On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan's severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler. — Dan Chaon

Greatness is never free; it must be earned. — Barack Obama

Choices

If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do

It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

If i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal

I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry — Nikki Giovanni

He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one. — Salman Rushdie

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big. — Peja Stojakovic