Bessie Head Quotes

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

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• From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Money
  • Moment
  • Talent

• You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • You
  • Know
  • Champion

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Hard
  • Watch

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Face

• When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Family
  • Weather
  • Box

• When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • End
  • Look

• I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • College
  • Learn
  • Start

• I'd like to win an Oscar.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Win
  • Oscar

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Trust

• I acted my heart out.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Heart
  • Out
  • Acted

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Weird
  • My Life

• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Sports
  • Gold
  • Determination

• Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Why
  • Window
  • Junk

• I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Women
  • Competition
  • Summer

• The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • World
  • Mind
  • Wisdom

• When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening

• During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • Rock

• Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

  

  Bessie Head