Quotable Quotes

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

Malcolm Bradbury

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The more you care, the more you fear.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Laughter is much better than anger.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Thought is more dangerous than you think.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

A leader in the leader is your positional status in the body while the leader in a leader is Christ in you the hope of glory

Ikechukwu Joseph

The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?” she asked looking at him with a coy smile. “Did we come for bait?

It must be horny douchebag day,” she mumbled under her breath as she slid the bag’s strap up on her shoulder.

Hey, Captain Neckbeard! Less talky-talky, more worky-worky!” Wednesday shouted rudely down at the man who had been changing the tire. She wasn’t planning on taking shit from a tow truck driving hick today or any other day.

Guns, double-crosses, hitmen… I can get used to a lot of things, but I’m never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I’m not saying five-star… I’m saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars… any stars.

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Yuh cyah vex when soca playin

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Person 1: "Stay back....I have a demon inside of me."Person 2: "Let me get closer...I have a hell inside me where your demons can live."(from Dark Winter, #2 - out Halloween 2014)

The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.

George Bernard Shaw

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

Malcolm Bradbury

The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The laws of men are not infallible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The future begins today.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safeguards have been introduced to protect personal privacy from prying eyes in the skies, the true benefits to society of unmanned aerial vehicles will remain unrealised.

Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Be the great person you were always meant to be.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t get a lot of encouragement from friends, although my family were great supporters. I also had many…what you would call “mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a children’s book that I am proud of, and an unforgettable little girl that will touch the hearts of many.”-Nina Jean Slack

Nina Jean Slack

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

What happens in you is more important than what happens to you.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.

How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows