Snootchie Bootchies Quotes & Sayings

I tend to lose them. The manuscripts. I remember myself as an aspiring writer, and you know, I never did this. I assumed that published writers had worked at it until they became worth publishing, and I assumed that that's the only way to do it, and I'm a little puzzled by young men who write me charming letters suggesting that I conduct an impromptu writing course. Evidently, I've become part of the Establishment that's expected to serve youth - like college presidents and the police. I'm still trying to educate myself. I want to read only what will help me unpack my own bag. — John Updike

Where there is life there is wishful thinking. — Gerald F. Lieberman

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself. — David Agus

You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy. — Anthony Bourdain

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. — Edwin Land

Don't use proxies when you give tough feedbacks. Be direct! Rather than saying 'some people don't even know how to pick the right tie'. Pull aside the person who needs your feedback, and tell him/her in his/her face: 'Your tie doesn't match with the event', and offer some options. — Assegid Habtewold

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts. — Lauryn Hill

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. — Baltasar Gracian

Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun. — Robert M. Pirsig

When finally you're done speaking you're dumb forever after, and when you're through stirring you go still, but this is no reason to decline to speak and stir or to be what you are. — Saul Bellow

I am not african.
Africa is in me, but I cannot return.
I am not taina.
Taino is in me, but there is no way back.
I am european.
Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language is Spanglish.
I was born at the crossroads
and I am whole. — Aurora Levins Morales

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. — Richard Chenevix Trench

I am who I am by choice. Society rejects me because I'm different; I reject society because they're all the same. — Travis Barker