Recollected Books Quotes

#1. It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am ... flaws and all) than it is for us to work at reducing our flaws and making ourselves more acceptable.

Darrell Roberts

#2. Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

Roy Ayers

#3. This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault ...

Albert Mohler

#4. I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to.

Helen Humphreys

#5. I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.

Mike Krieger

#6. Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

Franz Kafka

#7. I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?

C.S. Lewis

#8. All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

Zoe Saldana

#10. Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.. We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

Arthur Ransome

#11. It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

Billy Eckstine

#12. Let's admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with their attention, just as adults would 'vote with their feet' by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling.

Marc Prensky

#13. I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you. - Tessa Gray

Cassandra Clare

#14. Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.

Pablo Picasso

#15. Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance ... of becoming alcoholics.

Mariska Hargitay

#16. The sun's in my eyes and it's difficult to see. The shape of her is distorted by the light, circles of her silhouette removed as if by a pastry cutter.

Emma Healey