Upfronts Schedule Quotes & Sayings

A clear vision makes the soul merry — Sunday Adelaja

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different. — Uma Nnenna

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370) — Alex London

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. — Mike Tyson

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. — Wendell Phillips

I am human,I have troubles and God has solutions for my troubles — Mohammed Sekouty

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support. — Richard Whately

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears. — Emil Cioran

She raised her chin and her pale, black-fringed eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate. — Margaret Mitchell

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you. — Rick Warren

I would have sooner believed in fairy tales coming true.
Of course, we all believe in fairy tales now. The Scarlet Varulv has slunk out of the pages and lives with me in this cottage. The Sleeping Prince has woken and sacked Lormere, an army of alchemy-made golems behind him as he murders his way across the country.
Stories are no longer stories; characters run rampant through the world these days. All I'm waiting for is Mully-No-Hands to knock on the window, begging to come in and warm himself, and my life will be complete.
Actually, no, that's not what I'm waiting for. — Melinda Salisbury

Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent. — Victor Davis Hanson

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke. — Jenifer Lewis

I just refuse to worry or get upset or be fearful. It doesn't do one particle of good. — Paul Henderson