Joschka Willemsen Quotes

#1. Neither were we allowed to choose what we ate. I have a friend whose seven-year-old will only consider something if it's white. Had I tried that, my parents would have said, "You're on," and served me a bowl of paste, followed by joint compound, and, maybe if I was good, some semen.

David Sedaris

#2. There comes that moment when we finally know what matters and, perhaps more important, what doesn't, when we see that all the life lessons came not from what we had but from who we loved, and from the failures perhaps more than the successes.

Anna Quindlen

#3. Listen, Baroqueheat ... We live too long ... to stay in the same rut forever.

Minari Endou

#4. If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn't there a kind of terrible beauty in it?

Megan Abbott

#5. Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

Troy Polamalu

#6. Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.

Nathalia Crane

#7. Visit an elf outpost and you practically hear the banjos in the background.

M.L. Brennan