That Camden Summer Quotes & Sayings

As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible. — Gene Cernan

My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me? — Gillian Flynn

You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl. — Miranda Kenneally

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them. — Daniel Pinchbeck

Yet, if I were to adhere to my mom's advice, I would have had to drop out of school years ago (since a lot of folks in our inequitable education system refuse to love us), quit engaging public health offices (because I walked in as a human in need of medical services and walked out as a patient whose subjective world was mad invisible by research lingo: "MSM," otherwise known as "men who have sex with men'), sleep in my bed all damn day (knowing it is more likely that I would be stopped by police when walking to the store in Camden or Bed-Stuy while rocking a fitted cap and carrying books than my white male neighbors would be while walking around in ski masks in the middle of summer and dropping a dime bag on the ground in front of a walking police and his dog)... — Kiese Laymon

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me. — Jo Brand

We had to keep explaining things, backtracking and filling gaps. We realised our own conversations had evolved into a kind of shorthand, a tidy, neat little minimalism. Covering the whole canvas in broad obvious brushstrokes for outsiders felt like a waste of sounds, time and effort. Speaking with footnotes. — Steven Hall

Two million people live in Silicon Valley and one million of them believe they've discovered the next big thing. — Ben Smith

She smelled of lemon and sunshine and a thousand Summer days filled with laughter. — Elizabeth Camden

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life. — William J.H. Boetcker

When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. — Augustus Hare

Was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step. — Helen Waddell

They've made her something else now. — Damien Angelica Walters

A man is never alone when he is with his imagination. — Spencer LaVyrle

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go. — Terry Pratchett