Amanda Borden Quotes

#1. Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

Susan Vreeland

#2. If life's taught me anything, it's that you might as well eat your dessert first, 'cos the ceiling might fall in before you're even done with the salad.

Jordan Castillo Price

#3. I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Miles Davis

#5. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.

Amanda Borden

#6. I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.

Katy Perry

#7. That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third party that has arisen between them. Love becomes an entity unto itself; the thing that determines how life is to be lived.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#8. And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#9. I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

Willem Dafoe

#10. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.

Arthur Miller

#11. Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

Amanda Borden

#12. He is not the same person as when we
met, but ... neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we're closer than ever.

Ann Aguirre

#13. Her dress was a shade of green only tree lizards should be sporting, and she wore more accessories than a home-shopping hostess.

Karen Neches

#14. His eyes narrowed to slits.
Power passed over her, intensifying her desire for him. She moaned and rotated her hips against him. What will you do with me now?

Lia Davis

#15. Even today, the politics of religion does not allow the subcontinent to become civilized and its people to become truly educated.

Taslima Nasrin

#16. Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#17. My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.

Amanda Borden

#18. God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

Max Anders

#19. I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.

Amanda Borden