Shayolonda Quotes & Sayings

I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide. I — Colleen Hoover

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization. — Burt Rutan

To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine," he said. — Don Kladstrup

I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want. — Tom Ford

Sometimes, she wondered what she was missing, if her life was somehow incomplete because she didn't see the reflection of her face in the face of a son or daughter. Maybe. That's what mothers told her: Oh, you don't know what you're missing; it's spiritual; I feel closer to the earth, to the creator of all things. Perhaps all of that was true
it must be true
but Grace also knew that mothering was work, was manual labor, and unpaid manual labor at that. She'd known too many women who'd vanished after childbirth; women whose hopes and fears had been pushed to the back of the family closet; women who'd magically been replaced by their children and their children's desires. — Sherman Alexie

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak. — Mark McKinnon

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer. — Adrian Pasdar

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old. — Andrew O'Hagan

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored. — Neil Young

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. — Robert M. Pirsig