Kage Baker Quotes
It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
-
It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
-
The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
-
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
-
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
-
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
-
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
-
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
-
I got through college.
-
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
-
I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
-
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
-
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
-
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
-
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
-
Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
-
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
-
When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.
-
I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.
-
Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
-
It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
