Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

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• More modern poetry is written than read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • More
  • Modern

• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Long
  • Value
  • Creation

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• The safety of journalists is paramount to CNN, as it is to news organizations worldwide.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • Safety
  • News
  • Journalists

• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • You
  • Alone
  • Concrete

• Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Fear

• Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Lyrics
  • Journalists
  • Evaluation

• The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

  

  Sid Caesar
  • Trouble
  • Fellow
  • Reminds

• Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • She
  • Baby
  • Motherhood