Yohan Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
-
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
-
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
-
In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
-
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
-
I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
-
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
-
I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
-
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
-
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
-
Fashion anticipates.
-
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
-
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
-
I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
-
You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
-
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
-
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
-
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
-
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
-
I want the kids to know that it's not a myth that somebody from their city plays and wins in the NBA. I just want to influence them to work hard and do whatever they want to do in life, whether it's to be a basketball player or scientist... if they believe in themselves, they can do anything.
-
I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.
-
I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.
-
I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.
-
I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
