The Colour Purple Shug Avery Quotes

#1. The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

Ferdinand Porsche

#2. Never Throw Stones At Your Mother

David Ross

#3. Daddy always pointed out, it should come as no surprises to anyone that merchants want to move their wares-it's sorta what they do, after all. But that's just BUSINESS and that has nothing to do with CHRISTMAS.

Jill Conner Browne

#4. How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

Shunryu Suzuki

#5. It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

Quentin Crisp

#6. So many the outward shows be least themselves. The world is still deceived with ornament.

William Shakespeare

#7. Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood.

Nayyirah Waheed

#8. My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#9. One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#11. I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

Cassandra Wilson

#12. Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Matthew Parris

#13. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

James Lovelock

#14. Only two bags, huh?" Helga was eighty, feisty, and the fastest knitter Elsie had ever seen. "We'll have to work on that. It's not a respectable stash until it has its own room.

Debora Geary

#15. A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing