Zevin Rosenbloum Quotes & Sayings

We must be willing to fall flat on our faces. Fearlessly putting ourselves out there is simply a required part of the process. At the very least, it results in the gift of humility and, at best, the triumph of our human spirit. — Jill Badonsky

Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain. — George Osborne

A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked earnestly across the table on errands of his own. Somebody had left a newspaper on the bench beside me, and I picked it up and swatted the cockroach, permitting his soul to transmigrate into the body of a quartermaster. — Ross Macdonald

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon. — Jerry Coleman

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves. — John McWhorter

When the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces. — Dale Carnegie

Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records. — Nas

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers. — Maurissa Tancharoen

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs. — Hilary Mantel

I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self. — Kristen Stewart

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Beautiful gay men are God's gift to women. They're like a consolation prize for ... well, for everything else about being a woman. — Meg Howrey

Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool ... — George Eliot