Quotes About Tea Cake Their Eyes Were Watching God

#1. You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself. If you fail, you forget it. If you win, you tell everyone.

David McRaney

#2. I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#3. My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.

Brie Larson

#4. Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Gerald Vizenor

#6. It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.

Markus Zusak

#7. True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

Seth Brown

#8. This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.

Mark Victor Hansen

#9. Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)

Sherman Alexie

#11. We got to win. Win no matter what. Trip, kick somebody, fight, bite. Whatever. Win.

Derrick Rose