Bernice King Quotes

Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

Bernice King

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I will keep working hard!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Working
  • Will
  • Working Hard

• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Man
  • Dying

• When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Running
  • Government

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Style
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Life

• Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

  

  Bernice King
  • Style