Waxy Leaves Quotes

#1. Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

Valerie Simpson

#2. I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

Donna Murphy

#3. I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

Hilton Als

#4. The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

Edith Wharton

#5. But then what were physical feelings if not more electrical messages from the brain? Why believe in them either? Was there anything trustworthy in the Universe that one could hug and hold on to in the midst of a butterfly storm, other than a Hawaliusian wind staunch?

Eoin Colfer

#6. I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. All of this material on key length block size and the number of rounds of encryption may seem dreadfully boring; however, it's important material, so be sure to brush up on it while preparing for the exam.

James M. Stewart

#9. Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!"
It's all I can do not to slap him.

Suzanne Collins

#10. We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Patricia Ireland

#11. The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Bodhidharma

#12. Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#13. A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

Michael Jordan