Selimovic Painting Quotes & Sayings

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid. — Pedro Martinez

Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown. — Sherry Turkle

Those who truly love you will always be there for you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. — Lois Lowry

I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. — Ahmed Zewail

And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with the power or the fervor she had expected. She had imagined it all different, and had imagined herself different, too. In dreams and poems everything had been, as it were, beyond the sea; the haze of distance had mysteriously veiled all the restless mass of details and had thrown out the large lines in bold relief, while the silence of distance had lent its spirit of enchantment. It had been easy then to feel the beauty; but now that she was in the midst of it all, when every little feature stood out and spoke boldly with the manifold voices of reality, and beauty was shattered as light in a prism, she could not gather the rays together again, could not put the picture back beyond the sea. Despondently she was obliged to admit to herself that she felt poor, surrounded by riches that she could not make her own. — Jens Peter Jacobsen

Lord, keep my memory green. — Charles Dickens

We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time. — Leslie Ludy

Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it — Charles Bukowski

In 'Yes' and 'No' all things consist. — Jakob Bohme

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets. — Waris Dirie

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done,
I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills. — Haruki Murakami