Yali Quotes & Sayings

God, what a depressing day that was and what an irony that Britain's first female prime minister had to be Margaret Thatcher. She was the woman who asked, 'What has feminism ever done for me?' Well, dear, if you need to ask that question then you're obviously not very bright — Jo Brand

And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living - here my voice in your head and think of me kindly — Morrissey

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true. — Steve Erickson

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. — Maria Montessori

Basil Donovan was drunk again. — Robert Silverberg

Give me the breath in your lungs, all the steps you took to get here, the only heart you got, your very soul. I want all there is, Soph. — Shelly Crane

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church. — Lincoln Steffens

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature. — Irving Howe

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. — Wyndham Lewis

Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that. — Patricia MacLachlan

Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped. — Anne Lamott

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. — Jim Cramer

It is better to find your own faults and rectify them than to find thousands of faults in others. — Debasish Mridha

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out. — Leigh Greenwood

Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali) — Jared Diamond