The Arkwell Academy Quotes & Sayings

I promised myself that I would maintain momentum.
"Maintain momentum" was the imperative that echoed all the way downtown.
In fact I had no idea what would happen if I lost it.
In fact I had no idea what it was. — Joan Didion

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed. — Alanis Morissette

He felt the pressure of her love as she squeezed his fingers, and then there was nothing. Except the pain. But nothing else, no Heather, no hospital, no staff men, no light. And no sound. It was an eternal moment and it absorbed him completely. — Philip K. Dick

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. — John Prescott

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me. — Bayard Rustin

The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity? — Abram Gitspof

We may be a little broken these days but I wouldn't trade it for anything. — Mindee Arnett

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance. — Mindee Arnett

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world? — Mindee Arnett

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun. — Jason Behr

I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program. — Daniel Boulud

The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present. — Mindee Arnett

If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper
might have used the word massive,
as if a mountain range had opened
inside her, but instead
it used the word suddenly, a light coming on
in an empty room. The telephone
fell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeating
something happened, something awful
a sunday, dusky. If it had been
terminal, we could have cradled her
as she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,
said good-bye. But it was sudden,
how overnight we could be orphaned
& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside
& the ringing all we'd eat. — Nick Flynn

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense. — Shaun White

You are your own boss. No one else. — Mindee Arnett

Nothing can be preserved that is not good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country. — Donna Brazile

Nope, there wasn't any getting out of this. Real first name meant business. — Mindee Arnett