"One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl."

-- Naturi Naughton

#Girl Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.”
“People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, â€˜Well, itâ€™s just that designerâ€™s aesthetic.â€™ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin colorâ€¦? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity.Â And there are people who do not.Â I donâ€™t get it.Â Beauty is universal. These doors have to open,”

Source : "The Return of the Supermodel: It's Joan Smalls" by Molly Young, www.elle.com. December 4, 2013.
“...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22”
“The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create.”
“I hate cameras. They interfere, theyâ€™re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When Iâ€™m photographing, I immediately know when Iâ€™ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.”
“It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.”

Source : "Levar Burton launches the "Next generation" reading rainbow app... And returns to 'community'!" by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2012.
“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”
“While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.”

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