Yatima In English Quotes & Sayings

You don't feel as real if you don't see yourself reflected in the media [ ... ] There's something very powerful about seeing yourself represented. — Dwayne McDuffie

Normal is not an opinion, it is a consensus. — Isabella Carter

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing. — Tony Grisoni

I think when magic is dark enough, it can look like anything it wants. — Laura Oliva

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois. — Jules Renard

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. — John Wooden

Save the Earth...it's the only planet with chocolate — Dianne Castell

Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All communications between the two seemed to have been cut, but within the keep that was his mind he still had power. The part of his consciousness that was telling him the pain did not hurt, and that all things were like other things, was like ... like ... he found it hard to think of a comparison. A magic mirror, maybe. — Iain M. Banks

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play. — Alan Watts

Such is our tragedy. We want something, and we keep asking for something else. — Anonymous

Watch out for that one, Grace 2.0 whispered. That smile will have you tucking your heart into your panties and handing the whole shebang over before he even buys you a drink. — Lauren Layne

Once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I may not be the best at what I do. But what I do, I do the best that I can. — Tamara Shoemaker

[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again. — Robert S. Arrighi

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. — Peter Matthiessen