Maya Angelou Quotes
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Quotes to Explore
-
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
-
I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
-
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
-
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
-
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
-
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
-
I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
-
Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
-
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
-
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
-
I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
-
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
-
I just write mechanical things.
-
I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
-
I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
-
People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
-
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
-
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
-
The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.
-
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
-
The driver wanted Reacher more than he wanted an undamaged front bumper.
-
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
