Sarah Kay Quotes
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
Sarah Kay
Quotes to Explore
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
Caitlin Moran
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
Karin Slaughter
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
Rachel Johnson
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
Nadia Comaneci
Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
Kate Bush
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
Rachel Kushner
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
AJ McLean
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
Yaya Toure