Lashell Quinnie > Lashell's Quotes

Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“How do you control the amount of insulin your body produces?
You control the amount of glucose you put into your bloodstream. Put in less glucose, your body will produce less insulin, and you will lose weight. Put in more glucose, your body will produce more insulin, and you will gain weight. That brings us to the premise of this book: Control your blood glucose, and you control your weight.

Lower blood glucose, and you will lose weight. This is universal.
How do you lower your blood glucose? The answers are in Glucose Control Eating©.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

tags: body, control, diabetes, eat-well, fats, foods, health, healthier, live-well, wellbeing

40 likes

#2

“Again, the exercise begins. For me, the American in me, the city of Detroit comes to mind. A house, once within the bustling city, now lies on the outskirts. Industry has come and gone, and the car manufacturers have relocated. I recall images of the rough lifestyles south of 8 Mile. The city’s borders have changed. Post-apocalyptic, long grasses sway with the wind. The house is melancholy and lonely. The owners: maybe there, maybe not.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

tags: betterment, educational, engagement, learning, life, past, present, reflections, soul, truths

81 likes

#3

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

tags: band-of-brothers, guns, love, loyalty, military-budget, pilots-family, politics, poverty

197 likes

#4

“The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

tags: advice, allotments, fruits, harvest, herbs, informative, organic, plants, tips, vegetables

97 likes

#5

“Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: 21st-century, crime-thriller, fiction, intrigue, murder, mystery-thriller, suffering, thriller-novels

171 likes

#6

“Julia, hanging back, says, ‘How have you been, Stephen?’
I want to tell her everything. I want to find out what she’s been doing, what she plans to do but, at this fated moment, a vision of my stomach floats before me. It is a soggy marsh, green rushes growing round the edges, gas bubbles surfacing all over and bursting. The bubbling of the marsh is set to the music of creation, the percussive glottal stops of the Big Bang. I realize I have, at best, one complete sentence left in me. ‘Julia,’ I begin, composing in my head a deranged paean of love that I can never utter. ‘I regret that I am not myself today. Terry has poisoned me.’
‘You should go home,’ she says.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, future, heritage, historical-fiction, love, multi-layered, past, understanding

41 likes

#7

“I swallowed a sigh since, truthfully, I was glad she found the cabin.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel

355 likes

#8

“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

tags: atrocities, facts, fiction, history, lies, literature, secrets, war, wartime

196 likes

#9

“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed. This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all. And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

tags: adult, adventure, complex, drama, griping, intrigue, literary-fiction, perspectives, revenge, thrilling

64 likes

#10

“I got the job as a Bingo host and did better than they imagined. Never before had they had an emcee so affable and funny, so enthusiastic to give away prizes, or so quick to make a tumor joke after calling out 'B-9'".”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

tags: celebs, fast-paced, fiction, fiction-writing, media, media-driven, modern, satirical, social-media, witty

60 likes

#11

“The crowd, most on the verge of premature middle age, were mainly drinking in intimate pairs, whispering in one another’s ears, laughing, touching. Public intimacy was the new sexy and still carried a whiff of taboo.”
― Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

tags: brainwashing, fear, freedom, government-dictatorship, manipulation, media, mind-control, obstacles, sorrow

28 likes

#12

“I’m in this plot because you took my lot.”
― Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

tags: destruction, drama, exciting, fast-paced, gripping, intense, legal, legal-thriller, suspense

32 likes

#13

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

1731 likes

#14

“I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

tags: narcissus, vanity

14 likes

#15

“Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

104 likes

#16

“It was Grandma Holland from Rhode Island—my mother’s mother—who appeared for me finally at the classroom door. She and Mrs. Nelkin whispered together at the front of the room in a way that made me wonder if they knew each other. Then, in a sweeter voice than I was used to, Mrs. Nelkin told me I could go home. We didn’t go home, though. Grandma led me down the two flights of school stairs and out into a taxicab, which took us to St. Paul’s Cathedral. On the way there she told me my mother had had to go to a big hospital in Hartford because of “female trouble” and that my father had gone with her. Ma would be gone for at least two weeks and she, Grandma, would take care of me. There just wasn’t any baby anymore and that was that. We were having creamed dried beef for supper.”
― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

3 likes

#17

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”
― Katherine Paterson

tags: reading

14 likes

#18

“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out of control. Ducking in the back seat, Blake could smell the burning rubber from tires skidding on the asphalt and hear the pedestrians screaming and car horns sounding off in rebuke.”
― Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

tags: clandestine, counterterrorism, drama, justice, legal, novel, plotting, suspense, target

275 likes

#19

“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

tags: action, adventure, death, dramatic, dystopian, fiction, good-vs-evil, science-fiction, supremacist, war

197 likes

#20

“The adrenaline rush subsides as it becomes harder to catch your breath. You become light headed, then dizzy and confused as the air runs out. Reason and sense evaporate as the darkness claims you. That is how it felt to be a Tunnel Rat.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount

188 likes

#21

“Convincing all nations in the civilized world to agree that any investments into these corporations should be tax-free was not an easy task. Tea with the Queen didn’t quite cut it. Saki with the Japanese Prime Minister was pleasant, but not quite enough. We had to offer major trade concessions to our partner nations to bring them to the negotiating table. In retrospect, it was a small price to pay. The talks earned me the title of “The Great Negotiator.” I didn't mind.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

tags: diplomacy, entertaining, fast-read, government, literary-fiction, political-goals, satirical, succinct, witty

82 likes

#22

“My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category: ordeal travel. At every turn I faced challenges, difficulties and threats when in the Congo. The challenge was to assess and choose the option best suited to making progress. But there were moments when there were no alternatives, or shortcuts or clever ideas. At these times, ordeal travel became really no ordeal at all.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

tags: africa, congo, travel, travel-quotes, travel-writing, travelling-alone

7 likes

#23

“We're selling vacuum cleaners.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

tags: action, action-thriller, contemporary-fiction, crime, crime-thriller, fiction, mystery-thriller

126 likes

#24

“The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, Conversations with Ernest Gaines

17 likes

#25

“Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity. And we need to say unambiguously to Muslims living in the West: If you want to live in our societies, to share in their material benefits, then you need to accept that our freedoms are not optional. They”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

2 likes