Stacey Lee Quotes

I am reminded of the proverb about the man with a single teacup to fetch water for his plants. In order to keep some alive, he had to let others die or run himself ragged. I have chosen to water this particular plant despite all its thorns, and I must simply hope my relationship with Tom can survive my absence. ~ Stacey Lee

Dignity can only be surrendered, and when it is gone, we are like the snail who has lost its shell. ~ Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference. ~ Stacey Lee

West looks up. 'This is the best time to hunt, when the animals are out looking for their suppers. 'Course, with a painted sky, light's not always good.' I never heard someone call the sky painted before, but it's the perfect word. Clouds outlined in gold streak across the firmament, casting uneven shadows over the landscape. ~ Stacey Lee

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own? ~ Stacey Lee

Just like life." "What?" "The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you're seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes. ~ Stacey Lee

no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side. ~ Stacey Lee

My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin - with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don't care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm. ~ Stacey Lee

Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down. ~ Stacey Lee

You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever. ~ Stacey Lee, Outrun The Moon

People are like boats, always coming and going. Sometimes never returning. Now that his boat has sailed, the sea is empty for me. ~ Stacey Lee

We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do. ~ Stacey Lee

He walks with the ease of someone with places to go but time to get there. I'm entranced by the fluidity of his movement, like the way he bites on his finger then flicks it skyward to make a point, to test the wind, to show he's thinking. How he plucks a stem of grass and places it between his teeth. ~ Stacey Lee

A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear. ~ Stacey Lee

Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me. ~ Stacey Lee

We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us. ~ Stacey Lee

You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born. ~ Stacey Lee

I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence. ~ Stacey Lee

I never backed down from a challenge before, and I don't intend to start today. ~ Stacey Lee

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything. ~ Stacey Lee

I bypass car-size lemonade bushes, zingy with a hint of gym socks, toward a patch of lichen flourishing at the base of a eucalyptus. I put my nose right up to the musty scent, even though it smells like raccoon urine. Aromateurs are trained from an early age to view each scent with objectivity. "You ~ Stacey Lee

No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn't come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door. ~ Stacey Lee

We all must abide by the rules, but some of us must follow more than others...Like Sweet Potato and her twisted leg, we have been born with a defect--the defect of not being white. Only, unlike Sweet Potato's case, there is no correcting it. There is only correcting the vision of those who view it as a defect, though not even a war and Reconstruction have been able to do that. ~ Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

What I'm saying is, without hope, there could not be disappointment." The ~ Stacey Lee

Their deaths might leave a hole in our hearts as deep as the ocean, but it is only because we are as deep as the ocean, and our capacity to love is as high as the sky. The earthquake took much from us. But there is much we can take from it as well ~ Stacey Lee

Caroline spends her grief by the dollar, until her purse empties and she's down to nickel hiccups and penny whimpers. ~ Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb," Andy whispers. ~ Stacey Lee

When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it. ~ Stacey Lee

Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries. ~ Stacey Lee

It is like the moon. We can see it differently by climbing a mountain, but we cannot outrun it. As it should be. ~ Stacey Lee

Though grammatically perfect, a French accent stretches his English out of shape. ~ Stacey Lee

Breathing is underrated. ~ Stacey Lee

Your head's like a room and when you's forced to stay in it, you gotta deal with all the trash that's left in there. ~ Stacey Lee

Maybe sorrow and its opposite, happiness, are like dark and light. One can't exist without the other. And those moments of overlap are like when the moon and the sun share the same sky. A ~ Stacey Lee

We are all like candles, and whether we are single or joined with another does not affect how brightly we can burn. ~ Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood. ~ Stacey Lee

You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts. ~ Stacey Lee

Trouble is, finding a girl is still a tricky situation, like choosing a hat." He flips off his hat and sweeps a finger along the edge of the brim. "Like, maybe you've had your eye on a fine-looking French number, but when it finally falls onto your head, it loses its appeal... Or maybe you've been told all your life that bison felts are the only hats worth wearing. And when something different comes along, say alligator suede, even though it's the most worthy thing you've seen in your life, you might leave it in the window"--he taps his chin--"until you realize no other hat will fit just right. ~ Stacey Lee

How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I ~ Stacey Lee

Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you. ~ Stacey Lee

The poor man, whose intentions were so quickly imagined for him because of the way the light hits his skin. ~ Stacey Lee

You miss being a girl? I ask her.
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path. ~ Stacey Lee

I don't really hang out with a lot of celebrities. ~ Amos Lee

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize. ~ James Lee Burke

We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population. ~ Barbara Lee

The words "brilliant," "radical," "original" were more often than not the descriptors applied to Scholar Kiladi's work. There was of course a leavening of "popinjay," "recluse," and "dangerous madman" from his detractors, but those served more to relieve than alarm her. A scholar who did not make collegial enemies was a scholar who was not exercising his intellect to its fullest extent. ~ Sharon Lee

As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed. ~ Drew Gilpin Faust

Drinking the energy of the universe
Breathing along with the Cosmos
With each breath
I am reborn
Into a brand new existence. ~ Ilchi Lee

In Alabama can't - ?" I was indignant. "I do. I guess it's to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom's. Besides," Atticus grinned, "I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried - the ~ Harper Lee

Hollow yourself or the fear eats you alive. ~ Mackenzi Lee

I know how to work a problem. Frustration is the enemy. It makes you do stupid things. So you don't let it beat you. Instead you search for landmarks, look for signs. The task takes every single bit of me I have left. It's good, this task, because it keeps my mind focused. ~ Carolyn Lee Adams

Draw a monster. Why is it a monster? ~ Janice Lee

But you think it because you don't trust your colleagues. Not all of them. You don't believe in them. Which leaves you isolated. It's all down to you. But the army is different. Whatever else is wrong with it, you can trust your brother soldiers. And believe in them. ~ Lee Child

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. ~ Robert E.Lee

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. ~ Tanith Lee

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you" ~ Lee Brice

I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more. ~ Alessandra Torre

In life we have two options, live like there is a no tomorrow or live forever in the footsteps of yesterday. ~ Emmie Lee Dean

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Most likely, when you are upset for any reason, it is rare that you will want to quickly see the real cause of your upset or the solution, but with practice you can begin to ask yourself honestly, is it the person/situation or is it my unforgiving thoughts about this person and the past that are upsetting me? ~ Lee L Jampolsky

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying. ~ Michael Lee West

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. ~ Gerald Stanley Lee

Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. ~ Li-Young Lee

Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place. ~ Jonny Lee Miller

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel. ~ Philip Pullman

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church. ~ Stacey D'Erasmo

I guess when you're hurt your first instinct's to hurt back. ~ Harper Lee

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more ... the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made! ~ Torron-Lee Dewar

Maybe I enjoy being pestered. Occasionally."
Sue Ellen rolled her eyes. " I can talk dirty to you, Hank. That takes no skill. ~ Lee DeBourg

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song. ~ Geddy Lee

I wanted all of him.
The angel and the demon.
The heaven and the hell.
He was my curse and my salvation. ~ Geneva Lee

In the enchanted woodland wild,
The Prince shall wed a Fairy child.
Dragon, Human, and Fairy,
Their union will be bound by three.
And when these lovers intertwine,
Three races in one child combine.
Dragon, Fey, and Humankind,
Bound in one bloodline. ~ Janet Lee Carey

Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart's desire, but sorrier still for those who did. ~ Laurie Lee

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers. ~ Kathie Lee Gifford

Not how much, but how well, is our motto. ~ Lee Smith

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients. ~ Sandra Lee

Now that little Southern Belle I just met...well, that's a totally different story. I could feel the innocence just pouring off that one, and damn if I didn't want to be the man to make a woman out of her. ~ Nevaeh Lee

We're people who knew older versions of each other too well to ever see the new person standing in front of us. ~ Stacey Jay

Being alone is not the same as being on your own. ~ Katy Lee

My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me. ~ Lee Daniels

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. ~ Lee H. Hamilton

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

This is the way for us to grow. I hope that the Lord will speak to you concerning your growth, that your growth in life is with the fourth-day lights. The first-day light was good for generating life, good for your rebirth. But, for your growth in life you need the fourth-day lights. ~ Witness Lee

I want to touch him abso-bloody-lutely evrywhere. ~ Mackenzi Lee

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything. ~ Bruce Lee

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV. ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that. ~ Jonny Lee Miller

To live is to express oneself freely ~ Bruce Lee