Wamah 8x8 Quotes & Sayings

No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen. — Anna Quindlen

There is a lack of humor in fashion. To me, it's always been the fun, cool industry to work in, and I always wanted people to be on my side and see how much fun we really have behind the scenes. — Chris Benz

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth

If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours. — Traci Chee

When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job. — Brian Tracy

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team. — Oscar Robertson

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate. — Louis Auchincloss

You shouldn't let something that happened in the past stop you from having something that could be great in the present. — Katie Ganshert

Why should I have been surprised?
Hunters walk the forest
without a sound.
The hunter, strapped to his rifle,
the fox on his feet of silk,
the serpent on his empire of muscles
all move in a stillness,
hungry, careful, intent.
Just as the cancer
entered the forest of my body,
without a sound. — Mary Oliver

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. — Charles Saatchi

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. — Prince

The powers and principalities would hold less sway over our lives if we refused to collaborate with them. But refusal is risky, so we deny our own truth, take up lives of "self-impersonation," and betray our identities.2 — Parker J. Palmer

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow