A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and...
REGINA LEWIS It's overwhelming the amount of support that the community has put forth.
REGINA LEWIS I like that they call it an airplane cabin. A cabin is where you go to get away from stress. The cab...
REGINA BRETT I still miss my gramma. I can see her at the farm, in her apron, babushka and support stockings. My ...
REGINA BRETT There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
REGINA BRETT When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas...
REGINA BRETT The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all th...
REGINA BRETT Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I ...
REGINA BRETT Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
REGINA BRETT Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being o...
REGINA BRETT We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and famil...
REGINA BRETT Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
REGINA BRETT My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in...
REGINA BRETT It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
REGINA BRETT Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us t...
REGINA BRETT Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stress...
REGINA BRETT If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take...
REGINA BRETT Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
REGINA BRETT Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.
REGINA BRETT If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them w...
REGINA BRETT When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
REGINA BRETT If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to ...
REGINA BRETT No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
REGINA BRETT Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't h...
REGINA BRETT If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, ...
REGINA BRETT My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charism...
REGINA DOMAN Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends...
REGINA BRETT Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter&...
REGINA BRETT How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping ba...
REGINA BRETT Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a preci...
REGINA BRETT Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy...
REGINA BRETT No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
REGINA BRETT Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact d...
REGINA BRETT Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To l...
REGINA BRETT The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones mi...
REGINA BRETT 'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint...
REGINA BRETT Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a chi...
REGINA BRETT Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with l...
REGINA NADELSON My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you p...
REGINA KING Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page (Regina Brett has written reg...
REGINA BRETT You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child...
REGINA KING When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exha...
REGINA BRETT It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achi...
REGINA BRETT I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, tha...
REGINA SPEKTOR It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met t...
REGINA BRETT There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex.
'She knows Chesterton.'
'She lives,' said A...
REGINA DOMAN Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dar...
REGINA DOMAN How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?"

"Look it...
REGINA DOMAN It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the ...
REGINA BRETT I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never...
REGINA BRETT It was like being in a sandstorm. It was cold. The top of my head was just coated with ice.
REGINA WYCOFF I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to t...
REGINA BRETT I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could th...
REGINA SPEKTOR I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we...
REGINA SPEKTOR They were so cute. They were this bunch of 40-something-year-old Silicon Valley guys in business sui...
REGINA LYNN My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started...
REGINA BRETT For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a '...
REGINA BRETT It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.
REGINA ROGERS This one is more memorable.
REGINA ROGERS Ish #153 "Artificial plants grow best in artificial light.
REGINA GRIFFIN Ish #19 "If your diet soda has zero calories, zero sugar and zero fat, what the hell are you drinkin...
REGINA GRIFFIN Immediately eliminate what you don't need. Notices may need to be read, but you don't have to keep t...
REGINA LEEDS They were so cute. They were so embarrassed to be there.
REGINA LYNN Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal ex...
REGINA SPEKTOR When I first heard about this, I thought it was a novelty, but I've changed my mind. I think that th...
REGINA LYNN Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.
REGINA GRIFFIN As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody...
REGINA BRETT Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or inv...
REGINA DOMAN When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tr...
REGINA BRETT I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightl...
REGINA HALL Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about s...
REGINA SPEKTOR I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, yo...
REGINA BRETT Nadie se forma en la cola de las tortillas para comprar pan
REGINA KURI When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it ...
REGINA BRETT 'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.
REGINA HALL Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore...
REGINA BRETT For what is God's will, but that we should be reconciled to ourselves.
REGINA ULLMANN May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have l...
REGINA SPEKTOR Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.
REGINA KING One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale mak...
REGINA DOMAN Ish #303 "It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.
REGINA GRIFFIN Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.
REGINA GRIFFIN Parents believe that their greatest responsibility is to provide....its not...it is to prepare!
REGINA PEACOCK Nothing hurts like a hostile farewell.
REGINA JENNINGS Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our...
REGINA SCOTT (Morris) had a food stamp card. He was on his way to Wal-Mart to get himself something to eat.
REGINA ANDERSON The incident lasted one sentence. I intervened. I ended it as soon as Larry opened his mouth. I told...
REGINA DAVIS That's what I hoped for. It was nice to see it, particularly on their court.
REGINA MILLER It's hard to realize it right now. It'll take time for it to sink in.
REGINA SCHLEICHER If you ask most young people today, they don't know about the grape boycott.
REGINA ROMERO The Federal government has not committed sufficient resources to researching how the disease starts ...
REGINA VIDAVER I think he is just trying to make everybody happy, trying to cover it up, trying to overlook us.
REGINA UNDERWOOD When you have nothing nobody knows you. When you have something everyone knows you. If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON Lady Dunreath, in the meantime, suffered torture; after she had seen Malvina turned from the abbey, ...
REGINA MARIA ROCHE ...Leaning on her maid, she stole through the winding galleries, and lightly descending the stairs, ...
REGINA MARIA ROCHE Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.
REGINA R. CARVER It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.
REGINA O'MELVENY The impetuous wind can ignite the fire or put it out.
REGINA O'MELVENY When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.
LEONA LEWIS I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surround...
LEONA LEWIS One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. Thi...
LEWIS HOWES Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki...
LEWIS BLACK I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.
LEONA LEWIS The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
LEWIS HOWES Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
JULIETTE LEWIS I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by ...
RAY LEWIS Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
LEONA LEWIS You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.
RAY LEWIS Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier t...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
SINCLAIR LEWIS What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
SINCLAIR LEWIS People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
SINCLAIR LEWIS Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasa...
MERIWETHER LEWIS We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl...
JOHN LEWIS ‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost yo...
LEWIS CARROLL I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times sinc...
LEWIS CARROLL She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a ...
LENNOX LEWIS Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWIS Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'...
AL LEWIS But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's th...
AL LEWIS As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fai...
AL LEWIS America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWIS We work it out like that so we both have more involvement in it. He knows the aspect of the defense ...
AL LEWIS They're very tight. They're excited to play together. It's like a little family we have here.
AL LEWIS She understood what the struggle was about. You become aware. It hits you in the stomach and then a ...
AL LEWIS One of the best things you can do in a situation like this is to show them a lot of kindness. They a...
AL LEWIS It's too nebulous. You can't understand anything. They keep saying, 'It's coming; it's coming.' It i...
AL LEWIS They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.
LEWIS TAPPAN It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
LEWIS CARROLL What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro...
LEWIS BLACK Goal setting should be part of your daily and weekly routines and should not be based on a calendar ...
LEWIS HOWES It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, bla...
LEWIS THOMAS A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argu...
LEWIS THOMAS If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
LEWIS HINE I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking o...
CARL LEWIS If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
LENNOX LEWIS As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the...
LEWIS HOWES Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating criti...
LEWIS HOWES If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for op...
LEWIS HOWES As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren&...
LEWIS HOWES We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the C...
MERIWETHER LEWIS I'm out there most every night, ... My work schedule, of course, is pretty rigid, but every moment I...
ALAN LEWIS We need to do a better job of treating our residents.
ALAN LEWIS This building size should capture a segment of the market that we feel is active and has not been pr...
ALAN LEWIS Did your grandparents ever share any stories about growing up in the country?
ALAN LEWIS If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o...
DAMIAN LEWIS I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been ...
DAMIAN LEWIS You just have to take control of your own performance.
DAMIAN LEWIS Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
DAMIAN LEWIS I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to su...
DAMIAN LEWIS There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into y...
DAMIAN LEWIS Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words...
DAMIAN LEWIS If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the direc...
DAMIAN LEWIS I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articul...
DAMIAN LEWIS I love playing sport.
DAMIAN LEWIS You have to go where the good writing is.
DAMIAN LEWIS I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
DAMIAN LEWIS The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and...
DAMIAN LEWIS I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
DAMIAN LEWIS You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a tradin...
DAMIAN LEWIS I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes y...
DAMIAN LEWIS In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still you...
DAMIAN LEWIS I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
DAMIAN LEWIS People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
DAMIAN LEWIS In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain ...
DAMIAN LEWIS No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
EDMONIA LEWIS I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come lat...
FLORA LEWIS I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
FLORA LEWIS I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
LEWIS GRIZZARD I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.
JULIETTE LEWIS Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it'...
LEWIS BLACK Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of ho...
ALAN LEWIS I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
SINCLAIR LEWIS Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is b...
SINCLAIR LEWIS