Frederick Douglass Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
-
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
-
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
-
I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
-
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
-
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
-
I love trying new restaurants.
-
I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
-
Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
-
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
-
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
-
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
-
Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
-
It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
-
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
-
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
-
Sadat made us feel more secure.
-
The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.
-
The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
-
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
-
Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.
-
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
-
My family is very conservative.
-
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
