Reading Cushion Quotes & Sayings

Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in. — Isabel Allende

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. — Helen Thomas

I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything. — Jon Jon Augustavo

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion. — Ellen Kushner

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. — Katherine Paterson

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. — Ernst Mayr

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting. — Neil Gaiman

In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects. — Cate Blanchett

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you. — Pope Francis

You make decisions and decisions will make you. — Lester Sumrall

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?
When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can,
Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,
But you must flout my insufficiency? — William Shakespeare

And the thing is, we can't fail. We've already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can't go wrong, babe. — Erin McCarthy

When James Wan is out there the horror is real, no doubt about that Check out for own proof if you have guts Sinister 1,2... Insidious 1,2... — Deyth Banger

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment. — Caroline Shaw

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works. — Rashid Johnson