Shenetta Selden Quotes & Sayings

... on being somewhat antisocial-
"You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time. — Robert James Waller

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. — Napoleon Hill

Positively, the delinquent behavior seems to speak clearly enough. It asks for what we can't give, but it is in this direction we must go. It asks for manly opportunities to work, make a little money, and have self-esteem; to have some space to bang around in, that is not always somebody's property; to have better schools to open for them horizons of interest; to have more and better sex without fear or shame; to share somehow in the symbolic goods (like the cars) that are made so much of; to have a community and a country to be loyal to; to claim attention and have a voice. These are not outlandish demands. Certainly they cannot be satisfied directly in our present system; they are baffling. That is why the problem is baffling, and the final recourse is to a curfew, to ordinances against carrying knives, to threatening the parents, to reformatories with newfangled names, and to 1,100 more police on the street. — Paul Goodman

Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget. — Raghubir Singh

That's funny. You would think after being followed and shoved into a dark alley by a stranger, you would be at least a little shaken. Don't tell me, you are a black belt just waiting for the perfect moment to strike." He laughed soundlessly. "I mean your words do sound brave but your eyes and the fact that you're trembling like a scared little kitten say something else entirely." Even though the alley was submerged in darkness and shadows, it was obvious there was a devilish grin stretched across his face ... — Nicole Rae

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait. — V.S. Naipaul

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go? — David Maister

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,
and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you — Bill Gates

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. — Charlie Haden

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it. — Roger Andrew Taylor

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before. — Carly Rae Jepsen

When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It — Garry Kasparov

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I ... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people. — George Weah

The feeble soul merely whines and complains. — Taylor Caldwell