Scraping Membrane Quotes & Sayings

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. — Marquis De Custine

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed. — Chantal Joffe

Stop it," Adrian ordered, his strange accent thicker with his vehemence. "I promise, I'm not going to hurt you! — Jeaniene Frost

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder ... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us
the recognition of something we never knew was there ... — Alberto Manguel

It was nigh impossible to understand Howard's speech under normal circumstances. He favored a pidgin of his lost African tongue and slave talk. In the old days, her mother had told her, that half language was the voice of the plantation. They had been stolen from villages all over Africa and spoke a multitude of tongues. The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings. All the words except for the ones locked away by those who still remembered who they had been before. "They keep 'em hid like precious gold," Mabel said. — Colson Whitehead

But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that's something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it's wheels, and they begin to walk. — Jennifer E. Smith

women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions. — Peter G. Northouse

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket. — Maxine

When all the stars were falling, they fell from above, and I thought of hate, and I thought of hate, and then I thought of love. — Lisa Loeb

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit. — Nikki Haley

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want. — Holly Lynn Payne