Sextons Cahaba Quotes & Sayings

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. — Booker T. Washington

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams. — Audrey Hepburn

Please let go, Tommy. I may need to move with some suddenness, and - as I said - it is safer for you behind me, not holding onto me." He nudged me with the end of his cane. I felt an immense power as the cane touched me. If you've ever been near a lightning strike or inside an electricity station you'll know what I mean. It wasn't being touched by power; it was being touched by the presence of power. — Jake Kerr

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, Uh-oh. — Jim Butcher

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth. — Jack Kirby

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular. — Darren Shan

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy. — Chad Michael Murray

But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me. — Sally Potter

I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research — Otto Scharmer

That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head. — Christopher Buehlman

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever — Jodi Picoult

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised. — Mary Cheney

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936] — Elizabeth Bowen