Shawna Quotes

#1. The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved by the sheer accumulation of loss. Grief-fiti. That's what it was.

Armistead Maupin

#2. When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is ...
because that is what it is to live.

Shawna Mae Lewis

#3. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

John Niven

#4. Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Dennis Gabor

#5. Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.

Shawna Robinson

#6. Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#8. The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Sarah Silverman

#9. My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

Shawna Thompson

#10. If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

Daniel Radcliffe

#11. Life had a way of working out. The lid-for-every-pot theory seemed to work, if you waited long enough and were patient.

Danielle Steel

#12. Maybe this is what it meant to be a citizen of a place - bonded to each other by the histories thrust upon us.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#13. But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

Shawna Robinson

#14. Everyone hurts us. If we stopped loving them because of pain, we'd never love anyone.

Courtney C. Stevens

#15. The morning skate was a game-day ritual dating back to the seventies, introduced in North America by the Russians, and used as an attendance taking to make sure players who may have been out carousing the night before finished sweating the alcohol out of their system before the game.

Shawna Richer

#16. Your perception is a choice, and choices are something we make for ourselves." ~ Caleb Langley

Shawna K. Williams

#17. Poetry is one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.

Shawna Platt

#18. An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Walter Bagehot

#19. We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always ...

Shawna Mae Lewis

#20. I swallowed him down like liquid decadence and begged for more.

Shawna Grace

#21. Nothing brings memories to the surface like smells and flames.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#22. Kissing Shilo like this was absolutely exhilarating, like free falling before plummeting into a safety net full of delicious pink cotton candy. I was instantly addicted.

Shawna Grace

#23. I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Peter McWilliams

#24. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Shawna Lemay

#25. Not included as health spending are expenditures for social services and economic well-being that contribute to health,

Elizabeth H. Bradley

#26. To me, goth is like really hard black lipstick, black nails, black clothes.

Shawna Thompson

#27. If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

Shawna Robinson

#28. If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Dan Millman

#29. We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#30. As a business leader you have to ask yourself, "Am I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?" If the answer is no, FIX IT!

Steve Maraboli