Aubree Connors Quotes

#1. In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

Walter Dean Myers

#2. Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#3. I don't expect you to like me. But I hope you can tolerate me

B.V. Taylor

#4. Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#5. If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

Adoniram Judson

#7. It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.

Damien Chazelle

#8. Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

Ben Carson

#9. I was born blond, but I grew out of it
Nobody took man from woman
Nobody took male from female
Nobody took boy from Tom Boy
Nobody took he from she
I'm as sexist as he is

Catherine Elizabeth Clay

#10. In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.

Amy Richards

#11. Racism - the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them - inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. I would spar with the boys at school. This guy I had a crush on, we called him Spitfire
I gave him a bloody nose and lip, so needless to say the romance did not work out!

Ashley Greene

#13. Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

Rick Riordan

#14. ...Dads are supposed to be the strong ones. That's probably why Red has so many lines on his forehead. All the hurt goes up there to hide.

Sarah Ockler