Vertamae Smart Quotes & Sayings

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir. — Neil Kinnock

She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved. — Victor Hugo

Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy."
"Really? Was that how you quit me? — Gayle Forman

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is. — Sherman Alexie

By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

You ought to dance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out. — Avril Lavigne

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me. — Nicole Beharie