Crystal > Crystal's Quotes

“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”
― Dick Gregory

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world’s remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“It's not quite love and it's not quite community; it's just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid and you stay at the table. When it's four A.M. and no one goes to bed. That night with the guitar. That night we can't remember. That time we did, we went , we saw, we laughed, we felt. The hats.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating from college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“we just battle time.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There’s less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting too involved. In war movies, a thousand soldiers can die gruesomely, but when the horse is shot, the audience is heartbroken. It’s the My Dog Skip effect. The Homeward Bound syndrome.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Sometimes I think about what it would be like if there was actual peace. The whole planet would be super sustainable: windmills everywhere, solar paneled do-bops, clean streets. Before the world freezes and goes dark, it would be perfect. The generation flying its tiny cars would think itself special. Until one day, vaguely, quietly, the sun would flicker out and they'd realized that none of us are. Or that all of us are.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power—not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
― Bell Hooks

“Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.”
― Robin Roberts

“Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“Make your mess your message,” Momma liked to say. And I did.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.”
― Robin Roberts, From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By

“Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“Make you mess your message.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“Make your mess your message.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“Do you know that some women actually refuse to be treated for fear of losing their hair? In the words of my friend India Arie: “Hey, I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within.” I wanted to make a statement that I wasn’t ashamed to have cancer or be bald. I was absolutely stunned by the reaction to my video diary. The outpouring of support was overwhelming.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“Good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.”
― Robin Roberts, Everybody's Got Something

“I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen
when company comes, but I laugh and I eat well, and I grow
strong.
Tomorrow I'll sit in the table when company comes, nobody
will dare say to me "eat in the kitchen" then.
Besides they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed.”
― Langston Hughes, I, Too, Am America

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“They don't realize evil lives on their streets”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“They never see me coming.
Know why?
Because I’m already there.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Listen carefully, I’m going to say three words.”
“I love you?”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I always win in the end”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes