Florence King Quotes

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

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• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • House
  • Hate
  • Day

• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Valuable

• It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Important
  • Money
  • Clothes

• Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Animal

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Travel
  • Where
  • Somewhere

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Because
  • False

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Choices

• Money has no moral opinions.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Money
  • Moral
  • Opinions

• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Always
  • Genuine

• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Evil

• All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • Say

• Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Strong
  • See

• Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Think
  • Jesus
  • Heaven

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• As long as he doesn't take my job.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Long
  • Job

• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

  Florence King
  • Always
  • Nothing
  • Say