Botany Lane Quotes

#1. I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.

Mat Johnson

#2. We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.

Michele Bachmann

#3. The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls .

Saint Augustine

#4. About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.

Geoff Tate

#5. Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

Philip Schultz

#6. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks

#7. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.

Patrick Suskind

#9. Dig deep and go where the pain and fear and joy are, and put it out there. The minute you shy away from pure honesty in your writing, you become a liar.

Dan Alatorre