Sisinini Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind. — Samantha Shannon

If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days? — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial. — Mary Roach

When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world. — Nhat Hanh

Your thoughts create your life. — Fern Johnson Hilton

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. — Marcus Aurelius

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles. — Aeschylus

I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline. — Sasha Grey

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock. — Lawrence Block

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. — Linda Wells

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it. — Luke Donald

Sometimes on late summer nights, when the sky is perfect and our parents are in a good enough mood to let us, we meet up to take a midnight walk through the field beyond our houses. It's always peaceful and quiet, a perfect time to stargaze into the velvety black sky dotted with millions of crystals that make up the Milky Way. The warm summer night's breeze ripples the tall grass and makes a small brushing sound that echoes throughout the valley. In the distance, the Appalachian Mountains loom like giant gray ghosts cast in the silvery glow of the midnight Moon. They wrap around our little valley like a scarf, and the hollers that seem close in the daytime seem like a lifetime away in the dark. We become engulfed by the thousands of fireflies that dance around in the steamy mist that radiates off of the ground because of the humidity. Those are the beautiful midsummer nights in Valia Springs that I will never forget. — Jacquelyn Eubanks

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom