Colenso Speer Quotes

#1. As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Bernie Mac

#2. I didn't really like 'You Raise Me Up' at the time we recorded it; now it's my favourite Westlife song.

Shane Filan

#3. My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#4. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Brom

#5. Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.

Lisa See

#7. When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

Ned Vizzini

#8. Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

Mercedes Lackey

#9. A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.

Karen Maezen Miller

#11. The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

Storm Jameson