Wingspread House Quotes & Sayings

You guys know about vampires? ... You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There's this idea that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. And what I've always thought isn't that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. It's that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn't see myself reflected at all. I was like, "Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don't exist?" And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it. — Junot Diaz

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance. — Mindy Kaling

When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!' — Rener Gracie

....looking for God in everyday stuff. Something I definitely needed to practice more. — Jennifer Rodewald

These demands of life are so universal that either we like it or not, we are going to come across them one way or another. The response we give determines what our lives become. — Sunday Adelaja

He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw. — Gena Showalter

the further humans move from nature, the crazier they get. In — Rita Mae Brown

Values and Traditions. Regardless of whether you actively try to pass on your values and beliefs to your baby, she is bound to absorb some of them just by living with you. She'll notice how disciplined you are in your work, how deeply you hold your beliefs, and whether you practice what you preach. — Steven P. Shelov

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest. — Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith. — Ann Patchett

We stood two feet apart. There was a buffer of history between us, and everything else pulling us together. — Maggie Stiefvater

If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind. — Girdhar Joshi

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own? — Jodi Picoult

Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust. — John C. Maxwell

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come. — Tyra Banks