May Sinclair Quotes

When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

May Sinclair

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• Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fight

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Finish

• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Growing
  • Kind
  • Getting

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Fear
  • Try
  • Self

• Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Control
  • Single

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Home
  • Guy

• Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Home
  • Energy

• God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • God
  • Energy

• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • World
  • Music
  • Why

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Business

• No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

  

  William Cowper
  • World
  • Half
  • Enthusiasm

• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Children
  • Society
  • Idea

• At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Chance

• When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

  

  May Sinclair
  • Fire
  • Genius
  • Flash