Shimomura Crossing Quotes & Sayings

But joy is individual, and can only be experienced alone. Hell is communal, but Heaven is personal. — Simon Kurt Unsworth

We all have a different answer to what defines our happiness and fulfillment, but for all of us it begins with inner peace. Without inner peace, happiness and fulfillment is hard to reach. — Ron Baratono

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline. — Libbie Hickman

At the moment, everyone gets a copyright as soon as the work is written down or otherwise fixed, whether they want one or not. — James Boyle

The term IRL (in real life) is like a safe word for millennials. It's a reminder that despite spending majority of our time meticulously crafting online personas, we still have vital organs that need to be taken care of and family members we should probably interact with. More than anything, it's a reminder of the world we were introduced to the day we left our mother's wombs. Those brave women didn't push us out of their vaginas just so we could strive to be interesting online and disconnected in the real world. — Greg Dybec

The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man ... — Kelly O'Connor McNees

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.' — Julianne Hough

Strider's bedroom The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought then. The portrait was a weapon, too. Of seduction. In it Strider was utterly naked and whisking through the cloads like an avenging angel. He was holding a teddy bear in one hand and a stream of pink ribbons in the other. Anya had given him the nearly life-size monstrasity as a joke. But the joke was on her. He loved the thing. — Gena Showalter

Reality is only just a word. — Harry Chapin

The contemporary Planned Parenthood movement was started by a woman named Margaret Sanger, who defended abortion rights on the basis of eugenics, the search for "good genes" based on the racist and evolutionary notions of "social Darwinism" prevalent in her day. — Russell D. Moore

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named. — Mira Nair

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them. — Dean Norris

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. — Bette Davis

His hands slid around my head, pulling me back to his mouth. There was a cracking sound in the house. A fissure of electricity shot through the room. Something smoked. I didn't care. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. — Gabrielle Zevin