Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

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• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Recovery
  • Fairness

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Loved
  • Old

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Important
  • Age
  • Senior

• Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Image
  • Interests
  • Protecting

• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Feel
  • Actress
  • I Feel

• There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Look

• I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Moving

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Society
  • Value

• An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Summer
  • Shadow

• Jay gave me a co-sign like I was RocaWear, but be clear I'm not the air/heir I'm the water, fire and the earth That means I'm doing dirt, spitting flames and quenching thirst

  

  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• A language is a compendium of the history, geography, material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it through the centuries. The words, the grammar, the syntax are a chisel that shapes our thought.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • History
  • Language
  • Grammar

• You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Nature
  • Purpose
  • Chaos

• I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Bird