Suheir Hammad Quotes

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

Suheir Hammad

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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Weird
  • Creative
  • Intelligence

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• The way I look at it you can always get better.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Better
  • Look

• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Time
  • World
  • Want

• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Tree

• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Mom
  • Child
  • Crying

• The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Charity

• We want to create content that our fans will like but at the same time stretches us creatively, with our own little touch.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Time

• When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Water
  • Fireworks

• A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

  

  Les Wexner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up

• I think life is pretty awesome.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Awesome

• In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

  

  John Hockenberry
  • People

• It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

  

  Alex Ebert
  • Time
  • Long

• Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

  

  George Bancroft

• I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • God
  • Thanks

• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Time
  • Music
  • Eyes

• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Beginning

• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

  

  Suheir Hammad
  • Imagination
  • Machine
  • Grind