Mahamadou Soukouna Quotes

#1. And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?

Philippa Gregory

#2. My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.

Kumail Nanjiani

#3. The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

John Aubrey

#4. Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

Coleman Barks

#5. Who will dance on the floor in the round?

Michael Jackson

#6. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And hold on when there's nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

Rudyard Kipling

#7. I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

Jack Kent Cooke

#8. His voice wore no pants.

Tom Robbins

#9. I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Robbie Williams

#10. The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.

J.K. Rowling

#12. I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

John Lloyd Young

#13. It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#14. Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

John Ortberg