N. K. Jemisin Quotes
And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.
N. K. Jemisin
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
Daniel Boulud
I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
Vin Diesel
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
Zubin Mehta
Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
Larry Ellison
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
Aaron Sorkin
I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
Gael Garcia Bernal
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
Abraham Verghese
After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
Ornette Coleman
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
Magnus Carlsen
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Malcolm Gladwell