Sligtly Quotes & Sayings

The tremendous leisure industry that has arisen in the last few generations has been designed to help fill free time with enjoyable experiences. Nevertheless, instead of using our physical and mental resources to experience flow, most of us spend many hours each week watching celebrated athletes playing in enormous stadiums. Instead of making music, we listen to platinum records cut by millionaire musicians. Instead of making art, we go to admire paintings that brought in the highest bids at the latest auction. We do not run risks acting on our beliefs, but occupy hours each day watching actors who pretend to have adventures, engaged in mock-meaningful action. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills. — Teresa Amabile

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be. — Lacey Alexander

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing. — Leighton Meester

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul. — Mari Serebrov

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see. — Brian Froud

I like no endings. I like things that don't end. — Becky Albertalli

Horror is best written in the dark. — Dennis McDonald

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race. — Benjamin Franklin

Is this about Archer? Please don't tell me you're upset about us, because ... I mean, you're dead."
She floated closer to me, until she was right in my face. At first I thought she was going to spit ectoplasm on me or something, but then I saw her lips moving again. I wasn't an expert lip-reader, but she was close enough and speaking slowly enough that I was able to make out what she said. "I told you," her pale lips mouthed, "that I'd haunt your ass."
I stared at her mouth, horrified, as she smirked. And then,just like that, she was gone. The air near my face wafted sligtly, like someone had just opened a window.
"I don't need this!" I said to the empty room. "Seriously, plate? FULL."
But there was no reply. — Rachel Hawkins

The way you see yourself and others will significantly impact your ability to give your time, treasure or talents. — Vinnie Fisher

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that. — Pearl S. Buck

The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing. — Joe

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. — Ted Cruz