"As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?"

-- Anthony A. Williams

#Thinking Quotes #Frying Pans Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.”
“Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"”
“You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.”
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
“I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.”
“Let's make something happen to this world.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1875). “Ballads for Little Folk”, p.175
“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

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