Jamillah Arterbury Quotes

#1. If our brains were as simple as we could understand them, than we would be so stupid that we couldn't understand them again.

Jostein Gaarder

#2. I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Billie Holiday

#3. I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them ... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Katherine Parkinson

#4. I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'

Dave Bautista

#5. A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and
undercutting the old-wood smell
the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish.

Donna Tartt

#6. What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

Richard Flanagan

#7. Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Iwan Goll

#8. In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

John Roos

#9. Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

Sarah Koenig

#10. My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#11. Yet Gregor's sister
was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side,
following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy
expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his
head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the
chance came.

Franz Kafka

#12. In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.

Matt Smith

#13. For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

Michael Leunig

#14. If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).

Thomas S. Monson