Dontrelle Willis Quotes

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

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• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Whole
  • Rather

• At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Time
  • Job
  • Thought

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Proud

• Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dad

• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Tree

• If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for free.You won't get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dream might be. - Something for Nothing (1976)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dream
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • Nice

• Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Truth
  • War
  • Passion

• Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Kids
  • Support

• I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Believe
  • School
  • High

• Every single person on the planet has equal humanity.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Single
  • Humanity

• Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Women
  • Embrace
  • Decay

• The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Darkness

• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Purpose

• I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

  

  Michael Stuhlbarg
  • Humor
  • Surprise
  • Specificity

• I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

  

  Dontrelle Willis