Bessie Head Quotes
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I love books.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.
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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.
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People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
