Toffer Stevenson Quotes & Sayings

And I know when you're a teenager everybody feels different and alien to the other people around them but there seems to be an added dimension when you're queer. It's because for that period of time you're more isolated than anybody else and you truly think you are the only one of your kind. So you create fantastic barriers and defence strategies for yourself to survive. And when you get older and realise that you can take them down it's an internal and eternal struggle to do so. Fear is the best anti-motivator in the world. — Sean Kennedy

Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me."
As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. — Maggie Nelson

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride. — Lewis Howard Latimer

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well. — Gore Vidal

J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered - as it still is in many quarters - an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere "escapism." "Of course it is escapist," he cried. "That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape - and take as many with him as he can." He went on to explain, "The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible. — Stephen R. Lawhead

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling. — Kara Walker

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed. — Frederick Schiller Faust

Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being. — Paul Arden

Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.' — Casey Wilson

It was not merely intelligence that she saw. Years later she liked to show off a — Walter Isaacson

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose. — Lao-Tzu

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. — Nicholas Kristof