Steelband Classics Quotes

#1. When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

Gloria Steinem

#2. Reality is painful
it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing
but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

Aaron Swartz

#3. I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me ... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

Evan Davis

#4. Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#5. If you shake the devil's hand, do not complain if he breaks it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

Euripides

#8. And the machine speaks the words I've never been able to say. I love you.

Sharon M. Draper

#9. I would say that the "masterpiece" was the creative act itself and not a particular work which happened to please a large audience and be accepted as the very body of Christ.

Henry Miller

#10. Dev called Katya on the comm panel as soon as he was able. "How are you?"
"Fine." Her lips curved. "Connor brought me a smoothie -he said you threatened to cut his legs off at the knees if he forgot."
"Damn straight.

Nalini Singh

#11. Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Amy Hempel

#12. Nobody dies of hysterics, though. They don't matter. God gave woman hysterics as a relief.

Anton Chekhov

#13. Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#14. I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer."

Eckhart Tolle

#15. The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.

Bernard Cornwell