Yoosuf Ali Quotes & Sayings

I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself. — Lisa Yuskavage

Invention hovers always a little above the rules. — Mary Oliver

You don't walk over the people you love, you walk with them, — Riann C. Miller

The nose can't help catchin' what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evil's been around for a long time, ever since rocks started getting real hot and making a lot of noise as they exploded out o' the ground and evil spirits wisped out of hell. If a band ever uses a fog machine, hold your breath so you don't become possessed by one. — M.C. Humphreys

Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. — Neale Donald Walsch

It's always in your eyes if you love her — Subhasis Das

Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. Remember that. — Kathryn Perez

The silence leans forward. — Sasa Stanisic

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything. — Halldor Laxness

Children are sacred beings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey's name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they were spoken, seldom written. In fact, few had any concept of "spelling" - the idea that each word, when written, should take a particular predetermined form of letters. The word cony (rabbit) appeared variously as conny, conye, conie, connie, coni, cuny, cunny, and cunnie in a single 1591 pamphlet. — James Gleick