Mavis Staples Quotes
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
Quotes to Explore
-
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
-
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
-
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
-
You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
-
Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
-
There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
-
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
-
I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
-
A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
-
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
-
It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.
-
When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
-
Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
-
Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.
-
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
-
The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
-
I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.
-
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
-
I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
-
To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely on accessories to make a dress that isn't working work, I do love jewelry and handbags more than anything.
-
I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
-
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
-
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
