Zenzile Makeba Quotes

#1. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

#2. Is there a particular way you'd like to end up on the floor this time?" he asked as he shifted his stance and waited for me to attack. "Or do you just want me to surprise you?"
"Gee, if I get a choice, how about if I end up on top this time?

Devon Monk

#3. I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

A.E. Housman

#4. Aren't you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren't these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?

Mike Gayle

#5. How's yours?" inquires Marv soon after. "Or more to the point, what is it?"
"Eggs and cheese and something."
"Do you even like eggs?"
"No."
"Then why'd you get it?"
"Well, it didn't look like eggs when it was on that other guy's plate."
"Fair enough. You want some of mine?

Markus Zusak

#6. You might think it wasn't real nice to kick a dying man, and maybe it wasn't, but I'd been wanting to kick him for a long time, and it just never had seemed safe till now

Jim Thompson

#7. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.

David A. Bednar

#8. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

Cameron Jace

#9. I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

Michael Leunig

#10. I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

David Gordon Green

#11. I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.

Lucas Till

#12. For the girls, cigarettes were torches of liberation

Shefalee Vasudev

#13. To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

David S.E. Zapanta