Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Game
  • Day
  • Everyday

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hands

• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Day
  • Balance

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Loyalty
  • Weight

• My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Live

• I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Risk

• Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Live
  • Garden