Velleda Ceccoli Quotes

#1. We settled in a booth at Bishop's 4th Street Diner, an aging silver zeppelin on the rotary outside the naval base, grungy and stuffed with Betty Boop tchotchkes in the windows. The waitress greeted Abbass familiarly and promptly took her order: a hamburger, rare, and fries.

Marilyn Johnson

#2. Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

John G. Schmitz

#3. As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a misinterpretation. In reality, Allah had abandoned him completely. He wanted nothing to do with him.

Tehmina Durrani

#4. Happiness is good but not enough. Peace is good and is enough.

Iyabo Ojikutu

#5. I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away

Katherine Applegate

#6. Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!

Pope Francis

#7. You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

Phil Ochs

#8. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#9. Your smile has magic in it.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

Chris O'Dowd

#11. As we stay there, pressed against each other, the room smelling of coffee and sex, I hear him mutter . . . perhaps to himself, perhaps to me, Last time, my ass.

Kyra Davis