Waiting To Exhale Quotes

#1. My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

Tananarive Due

#2. I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

Terry McMillan

#3. Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale

Fela Durotoye

#4. I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows.

Kevin Daniels

#5. Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'

Tom Robbins

#6. I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'

Emo Philips

#7. To know ten thousand things, know one well

Miyamoto Musashi

#8. The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce.

Evan Osnos

#9. Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

Satish Kumar

#10. My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge

#11. One time, when I was in a hide in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell three metres to the ground, landing on my back. It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything. That

Suzanne Collins

#12. It is far easier to make war than peace.

Georges Clemenceau

#13. I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

#14. From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

Arundhati Roy

#15. The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ...

Hugo Black

#16. Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual.

Karen Armstrong

#17. The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

J.D. Salinger

#18. And I had one of the guards tend to this." Mona lifts my chakram. "It's sharpened." Mona is my favorite.

Sara Raasch

#19. Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#20. No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.

Shannon Hale

#21. Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome.

Stuart Firestein