Maya Angelou Quotes

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Movie
  • Commitment
  • Reflection

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Money
  • Today

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• There is inspiration all around us.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Inspiration

• Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Successful

• Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Pleasure

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Good
  • Power

• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

  

  Maya Angelou
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  • Writing
  • Communication