Solero At Plantation Quotes & Sayings

There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exception, of course. Writers want to be special, because they're so not. They're losers, overgrown kids who've never escaped from being misfits and who have run away into their own imaginations in an attempt to find self-esteem. Why do you think they all star in their own books? Self included. — Chancery Stone

Every experience is a gift and happens for a reason. No matter how big or small, we are reminded that we are the captains of our ship. — Alexz Johnson

We're victims of our own refined tastes. — Brent Weeks

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck. — Edwyn Collins

You are the one who knows more than any human being about yourself. — Ezekiel Mosoatsi

Well, Dill, after all he's just a Negro." "I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that - it just makes me sick." "That's — Harper Lee

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work. — Robert W. Bly

Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. — James McBride

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. — Pico Iyer

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love. (Misia) — Chris Greenhalgh

If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family."
from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37 — Michael Flynn