Simon Kenton Quotes & Sayings

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues. — Alexis De Veaux

This is Ireland, Finley. It's rough. It's wild. And it is holy. — Jenny B. Jones

If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers. — Kevin Kwan

As the doctor walked me out he told me to "stop worrying so much" because it's possible that some of the rash actually is hives caused by nerves, and I made a note to tell my shrink the breaking news that the medical world finally found the cure for my severe anxiety disorder and that the prescription is "Just stop worrying so much." My God, we've come so far with science. Later — Jenny Lawson

Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward. — John Maynard Keynes

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. — Paul Watson

True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently. — Debasish Mridha

I'm a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel. — Tabi Card

First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds. — Robert P. McCulloch

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. — Rosamund Lupton

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation. — Walt Whitman

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none. — Charles De Lint