Suzy Quotes

#1. Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

Garth Nix

#2. I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

Suzy Bogguss

#3. We walked the rest of the way to math class in silence, but it was the best kind of silence. It was the not-talking kind of silence, the kind that so few people seemed to understand." -Suzy

Ali Benjamin

#4. I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.

Drew Magary

#5. Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE!
Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this?
Calvin: ... I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

Bill Watterson

#6. Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works."
"It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

Garth Nix

#7. Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.

Taylor Mali

#8. I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run
off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent
wasteoid who imagines the Khmer Rouge to be makeup and Guerrilla Warfare
to be that rivalry which occurs between apes.

Marisha Pessl

#9. As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in.

Garth Nix

#10. Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.

Elton John

#11. Your son is no gentleman. He refused to have sex with me." Suzy

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#12. This is Miss Suzy's house", said the captain, drawing his sword. "Will you go peaceably, or must we fight?

Miriam Young

#13. You know, Suzy, they ain't no way in the world to get in trouble by keeping your mouth shut. You look back at every mess you ever got in and you'll find your tongue started it.

John Steinbeck

#14. I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh ...

Garth Nix

#15. Stop teasing you two," Suzy jumped in, "not all of Kathy's ideas are wacky."
"Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#16. Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.
'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.
'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. I suppose you could call me ... Soot," said the thing. "Yes ... Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name."
"Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?"
"Boredom," said Soot.

Garth Nix

#18. I'd always thought that being seen was about what people perceived with their eyes. But by the time the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School made the fall trip to the aquarium, I, Suzy Swanson, had disappeared entirely. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.

Ali Benjamin

#19. Midnight Visitors,' whispered Suzy fearfully. 'With nightmare-whips and night-gloves.

Garth Nix

#20. The impact movies make on us are affected by when we watch it, who we see it with, and where we are in our lives at the moment.
- Suzy Nakamura

Graham Elwood

#21. Suzy Zeus is tense as stemware,
not explosive, just on edge -
needs a ten-foot wall around her,
or at least a ten-foot hedge,
Suzy's straining, teeth to toenails,
easing backward on the ledge.

Maggie Robbins

#22. And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.

Mel Tillis

#23. Love is meant to LIFT you up, not tear you down. It is meant to strengthen you, not weaken you.

Suzy Kassem

#24. When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.

Suzy Kassem

#25. Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those that were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

Suzy Kassem

#26. Stand up for what is just against the unjust.

Suzy Kassem

#27. O Heavenly Children, you chant God's name but you have forgotten him. He does not want your verses, or the coins from your purses, but for you to love and embrace each other. To uphold truth, justice and peace - and to respect your father and mother, fellow sisters and brothers.

Suzy Kassem

#28. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Suzy Kassem

#29. Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.

Suzy Kassem

#30. Change is good; it's what fashion is all about.

Suzy Menkes

#31. The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them ... and onto YOU.

Suzy Kassem

#32. When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.

Suzy Kassem

#33. Learn to see and love every human with the eyes and heart of God.

Suzy Kassem

#34. Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.

Suzy Kassem

#35. I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'

Suzy Menkes

#36. After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

Suzy Bogguss

#37. My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

Suzy Kassem

#38. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

Suzy Kassem

#39. Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

Suzy Kassem

#40. There is always time for a nap.

Suzy Becker

#41. Originality is the key to being memorable.

Suzy Kassem

#42. What's the point of a spark of light if it stands alone? The key is, and will always be, synergy. Without it, each and every light being will forever feel broken, misplaced, and internally crippled.

Suzy Kassem

#43. Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

Suzy Kassem

#44. No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.

Suzy Duffy

#45. Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

Suzy Kassem

#46. The natural end of an era, as designers whose houses bear their names grow old and pass away, combined with the arrival of digital cameras and Internet exposure, has created a perfect storm.

Suzy Menkes

#47. I like it because it is so funny and harry is so rude and but sometime he ca be nice to people.

Suzy Kline

#48. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work.

Suzy Kassem

#49. Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

Suzy Bogguss

#50. Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

Suzy Kassem

#51. Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.

Suzy Kassem

#52. There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word.

Suzy Kassem

#53. Shoes? I have loved them all: '60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the '70s; more boots - ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos.

Suzy Menkes

#54. Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

Suzy Kassem

#55. I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

Suzy Amis

#56. We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

Suzy Kassem

#57. Sleeping is very underrated.

Suzy Becker

#58. Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#59. Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Suzy Kassem

#60. There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Suzy Menkes

#61. A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

Suzy Kassem

#62. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

Suzy Kassem

#63. To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

Suzy Kassem

#64. Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

Suzy Kassem

#65. There is nothing that threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind.

Suzy Kassem

#66. Destiny is manifested only through action.

Suzy Kassem

#67. No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Suzy Kassem

#68. Question everything that is popular, and seek answers in what is not.

Suzy Kassem

#69. Creatures stalking each other over time grew a bond from mind to mind.

Suzy McKee Charnas

#70. Clothes are like friends.

Suzy Menkes

#71. Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

Suzy Amis

#72. Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#73. I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Suzy Menkes

#74. If sheep elect wolves to be their shepherds, then they deserve to be eaten.

Suzy Kassem

#75. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.

Suzy Kassem

#76. I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

Suzy Bogguss

#77. Truth is felt in the heart. This is why your heart should always be your ultimate temple. Sitting inside on a blue altar, is you're where you find your conscience. This is where all conversations with God stream.

Suzy Kassem

#78. Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Suzy Kassem

#79. Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.

Suzy Kassem

#80. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.

Suzy Kassem

#81. Thought before word. Never word before thought.

Suzy Kassem

#82. The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.

Suzy Kassem

#83. Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.

Suzy Kassem

#84. I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative within the mold they have cast, usually right at the beginning of their careers.

Suzy Menkes

#85. There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

Suzy Kassem

#86. Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

Suzy Kassem

#87. Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time.

Suzy Kassem

#88. My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.

Suzy Menkes

#89. Learn to love people unconditionally. The light of love sees no walls.

Suzy Kassem

#90. Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.

Suzy Kassem

#91. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Suzy Kassem

#92. Don't always come when you're called.

Suzy Becker

#93. How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.

Suzy Kassem

#94. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

Suzy Kassem

#95. I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

Suzy Parker

#96. Love is meant to lift you up, not hold you down.

Suzy Kassem

#97. When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

Suzy Amis

#98. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.

Suzy Kassem

#99. My first solo was in church when I was five.

Suzy Bogguss