Slomka West Quotes & Sayings

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God. — Gabrielle Union

The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development. — Mike Schmoker

You must learn to live with the big questions and wait for the next steps to arise. Only with this patience and perseverance, can Heaven really trust you and rely upon you in the world. Oh my, I have had to wait for so many things! — Marshall Vian Summers

...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had my pride stomped on, witnessed unforgivable acts, and heard words that hurt so much I withed that they would not replay in my head, but they did. In all these moments--some tear-soaked, some life-defining, but all character-building moments--I have felt vulnerable.
And I believe these feelings of vulnerability--when a person feels scared and alone and overwhelmed and pissed off, wen the sting of unfairness bites deep--while miserable to live through, are the basis for writing compelling fiction. — Jessica Page Morrell

The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine. — Murray Krieger

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. — Sydney J. Harris

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You — Ally Carter

Good criticism is very rare and always precious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No challenge is bigger than us! — Osama Bin Noor

Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more. — Brittney Griner

Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity. — Oswald Chambers

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna. — Erma Bombeck

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable. — Andrew Mehrtens

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [ ... ] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming. — Bertrand Russell

Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue. — Bill Ayers