Seyni Diop Quotes

#1. That's how life works. You know it when you know it.
They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.
They're on a sixteen-line highway.
Driving west.

James Frey

#2. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

Diane Ravitch

#3. The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.

Aldous Huxley

#4. The most courageous thing you will do in your life is trusting someone enough to let them love you

Steven Aitchison

#5. A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids.

Anne Tyler

#6. Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of it floats up to your head where there is deliberation. You are conditioned by the way your whole body is responding to what is going on.

Bill Henson

#7. Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

Adam Savage

#8. I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

Hampton Sides

#9. I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

John Cusack

#10. Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

Mooji

#11. To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Samuel Butler

#12. You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are feeding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

Anne Lamott