Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones -
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
Varley O'Connor -
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
Zig Ziglar -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
Jack W. Szostak -
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson
-
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey -
I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
Rand Paul -
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
Pat Buchanan -
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman -
I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
Randy Wayne -
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
-
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H. P. Lovecraft -
You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
Victoria Principal -
We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
Victor Mitchell -
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
Wendy Davis -
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan -
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
Yusef Komunyakaa
-
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer -
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
Ari Fleischer -
I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.
Andra Day -
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.
Thomas Hobbes -
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
Rita Mae Brown