Sidonie Smith Quotes

#1. Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

Alafair Burke

#2. People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Alan Vega

#3. It is wisdom to believe the heart.

George Santayana

#4. Once you realize that you have identified a passion, invest in yourself. Figure out what you need to know, what kind of experience and expertise you need to develop to do the things that you feel in your heart you will enjoy and that will sustain you both mentally and economically.

Martha Stewart

#5. P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them.
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

Paulo Freire

#6. Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

Paulo Coelho

#7. The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett

#8. The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it's all there.

Gail Tsukiyama

#9. The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory ... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

Richard Allen

#10. I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Lisa Gardner

#11. They think of themselves as your grandparents,' he said. But call them whatever you like. James and Mary?

Ann Cleeves

#12. Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

Lord Byron

#13. Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Frederick Lenz

#14. You are a child of the Most High God.

Joel Osteen

#15. One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

Gordon B. Hinckley