Sokollo Quotes & Sayings

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness. — Alexandra Bracken

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish. — Jim Broadbent

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,
how and when the spirit wakes to life again,
this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Powerful people are not affected or infected by their environment. They refuse to be victims of others. — Danny Silk

Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ... of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, "In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist." The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in The Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science is the process of discovering. In any case it's not established once and for all; it's evolving. — Marianne Moore

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind ... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low. — David Mitchell

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime. — Bruce Schneier

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not. — Amanda Palmer

As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before. — Daphne Du Maurier

I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola — Holly Hurd

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema. — Halsey

The ultimate goal is to always break records. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

That's what happens when you're angry at people. You make them part of your life. - Garrison Keillor In — Gavin De Becker

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do."

"Is it? Even if you're a monster? — Heather R. Blair