Lettin Quotes

#1. Most people don't associate anythin'
their ideas just roll about like so many dry peas on a tray, makin' a lot of noise and goin' nowhere, but once you begin lettin' 'em string their peas into a necklace, it's goin' to be strong enough to hang you, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

Poppy Z. Brite

#3. There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.

Texas Bix Bender

#4. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. I'm scared," I whispered and put the fork down.
"Yeah, I know ya are. We're all gonna die, Cookie. Death is the devil you know. The better you live, the more you piss him off, and he just hates that. Right now, you're lettin' him get his way.

J.B. Hartnett

#6. Where was I when the rockets came to life
And carried you away into the alligator sky
Even though, I'll never know what's up ahead
I'm never lettin' go, I'm never lettin' go!

Owl City

#7. So here we are. The two of us. Me and this geezer I gotta kill. Sittin here in a car showroom office, lookin at each other, lettin Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony take us to places too beautiful and too fuckin sad for words.

Ian Ayris

#8. You know what this is. That's why you're freakin' and hidin'. I know what this is. That's why I'm not lettin' this shit go.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Like it right now or not, Feb, couple days ago, you gave yourself back to me. You think I'm lettin' that go, think again because, baby, you're fucking wrong.

Kristen Ashley

#10. You are the best thing that's ever happened to me ... and I am not lettin' you go.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

Will Rogers

#12. The moth batted its wings angrily at him as it twisted and spun gracelessly in the green blades. For
Consort's sake, throw us a lifeline and stop lettin' death take me hand!

C. Kennedy

#13. Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

Alison Brie

#14. I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

Ellen Glasgow

#15. It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

Zora Neale Hurston

#16. Woulda made a deal with the devil to get my wife and daughter back." He was still whispering and my breath stilled.
"Don't have that chance so nothin' I can do about that. But I darkened your door, baby, and you lit up my life again so I'm not lettin' that go.

Kristen Ashley

#17. Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily ... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Bono

#18. Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out.

Sumner Wilson

#19. Besides, criminal masterminds are people too. They need groceries and cable like the rest of us.

Wesley Chu

#20. The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an atmospheric spoon.

Neale Osborne

#21. I love you. You're my whole reason to exist. That's why this is hard.

Sara Farizan

#22. In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

Vincente Minnelli

#23. Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

Barack Obama

#24. When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

Julio Iglesias

#25. In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

Gary Taubes