Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) Quotes
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
Gary Lineker -
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
Yoko Ono -
If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
Daniel Cudmore -
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco -
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo Migos -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple -
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson -
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln -
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor -
Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
Ralph Peters
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If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.
Bruce Wilkinson -
My head has got regrets, but I haven't.
Frank Bruno -
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
William Butler Yeats -
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.