N. K. Jemisin Quotes

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Rose

• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Business
  • Politicians

• I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Great
  • City

• Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Important
  • Feeling

• I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Think
  • Know

• We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Help
  • Small
  • Support

• I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Language
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • World
  • Sports

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation. In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Appreciation
  • Manipulation

• There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Hope

• I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.

  

  An Na
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Lyrics

• Trump is not the victim of the judicial system; he is or has been the defendant in 3,500 lawsuits - that's not the mark of a victim but rather a perpetrator.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Trump

• He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Needs
  • Missing
  • Youth

• The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

  

  Michael O'Keefe
  • Actor
  • Piece
  • Interpretation

• It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • History
  • Military
  • French

• The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

  

  N. K. Jemisin