Colloquially Def Quotes

#1. Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

Daphne Guinness

#2. But dammit, she was tired. Tired of doing what was expected, tired of feeling like she was missing something.

Jill Shalvis

#3. True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

Robert Grudin

#4. When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Chinua Achebe

#5. An artist is a person first.

Chaim Potok

#6. If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

William Shakespeare

#7. She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

Kiera Cass

#8. I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

Todd Barry

#9. The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

Virginia Hamilton

#10. My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.

Shiv Khera

#11. The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Mother Teresa

#12. Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it---you feel it, you know it, you believe it.

Kevin Alan Milne

#13. Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.

Kylie Bax

#14. Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Muhammad Yunus