{"quotes":[{"text":"Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["art","artists","artists-life","coffee","creation","creativity","fiction-writing","hyena","inspiration","novelists","payne","roman-payne","work","writing"],"id":3942,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["animosity","attitude","banana","bitter","bitterness","confidence","courage","criticize","drive","faith","focus","gorilla","gossip","greatness","hate","haters","hyena","insult","jealous","jealousy","judge","laugh","laughter","life","mock","mockery","monkey","monkeys","negative","negativity","perseverance","persevere","personality","positive","positive-attitude","positivity","ridicule","small-minds","strength","strong","success","successful-people"],"id":101409,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["animosity","attitude","bitter","bitterness","confidence","courage","criticize","drive","faith","focus","gossip","greatness","hate","haters","hyena","insult","jealous","jealousy","judge","laugh","laughter","life","lion","lion","mock","mockery","negative","negativity","perseverance","persevere","personality","ridicule","small-minds","strength","strong","success","successful-people"],"id":107087,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beauty","bitterness","doubt","envy","gorilla","great-people","greatness","growth","hyena","lion","lotus","lotus-flower","mockery","monkey","mud","nightingale","self","singing","song","success","worth","worthiness"],"id":173281,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["animosity","annoy","annoyance","annoying","attitude","bird","bitter","bitterness","competitive","confidence","courage","criticize","drive","envious","envy","faith","focus","gossip","greatness","hate","haters","hyena","ignore","insult","intrude","intruder","intrusion","intrusive","jealous","jealousy","judge","laugh","laughter","life","mock","mockery","negative","negativity","nightingale","nightingales","perseverance","persevere","personality","positive","positive-attitude","positivity","ridicule","small","small-minds","song","strength","strong","success","successful-people","ugly","woodpecker","woodpeckers"],"id":318831,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words.Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you.","author":"Mervyn Peake","tags":["bones","boy","goat","golden-words","hyena","revenge"],"id":394354,"author_id":"Mervyn+Peake"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}