Saddiq Bey Quotes & Sayings

You were lucky about that gun. All the people we know have been playing with it, wiping prints off and putting them on. I even put a set on myself just to be fashionable. — Raymond Chandler

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody.
He was. He was going to shake hands with death.
He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been.
("3 Kills For 1") — Cornell Woolrich

Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. — Vic Braden

Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain. — Toni Sorenson

Once, I was a kid and everyone else was old. The tables will turn. I'll be the guy that kids look at and see as old. Me. Fucking ME. Me, who was once out cruising on Friday nights, staying up until dawn. Me, who thought I was indestructible, who thought I was forever. Turns out I was wrong. Turns out I was just one in 6.8 billion, and very much subject to the same laws of time and space as everyone else. — Johnny B. Truant

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun. — Cecily Strong

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?"
You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious."
I just lost my appetite," he declared ... — Brandon Mull

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best. — Bart Starr

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit. — Rita Mae Brown

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love. — Ayn Rand

Don't go," said Cedric. "Murder has made you practically one of the family. — Agatha Christie

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler

Maybe I do have a few more dresses, but I'm just like everyone else. — Alek Wek

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose

Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know. — Jorge Luis Borges