Jesmyn Ward Quotes

There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.

Jesmyn Ward

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MemoriesTimeChildhoodMemoryHeat

Skin care is so important, and I'm the craziest person about it.

Jeffree Star

CarePersonSkinImportantCraziest

When you get to your third millionth frequent flyer mile, I think something snaps in your brain.

Jeff Foxworthy

BrainThinkYouSomethingGetYour

Play so that you may be serious.

Anacharsis

YouPlaySeriousMay

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Stanley Hauerwas

BeginningCreativeReachPersonal

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.

Sue Hubbell

GoodCatsFierceSurvivalEvolution

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson

StoryNewWriterWantedThemAfter

Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.

Bob Ney

DayMovingEvery DaySexCountry

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Armstrong Williams

AgeMeaningMoralityEvenOurLives

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Arthur Rimbaud

DanceWindowGoldenChainsStar

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

Artie Lange

CollegeVoiceThinkYouGoSay

When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.

Shelley Conn

ChildrenJobDressDoingGoNever

The only problem is time.

Seth MacFarlane

TimeProblemOnly

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