Valatie Quotes & Sayings

My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out. — Isabel Wilkerson

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. — Emma Thompson

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. — Tom Robbins

He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was "very glad;" but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley's salutation. — Jane Austen

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads! — Gail Carriger

Or when you're drunk, your brain doesn't have the ability to differentiate your feelings from your selves', which leads you to act impulsively when influenced by your Red-self; like a child, when influenced by your Yellow-self; or to do everything slowly and act like Einstein, when influenced by your Blue-self. Same thing applies for other types of drugs." -Samera — Lydhia Marie

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. — Charlotte Bronte

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. — Sun Tzu

But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone, — Jean M. Auel

The memory stings
and I hate that, I hate how all the good memories have turned into things that hurt
but I need the pain. — Claudia Gray

His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is. — David Hewson