Sun Ra Quotes

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

  

  Becki Newton
  • History
  • Career
  • College

• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • World
  • Light
  • Best

• I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Place
  • Grow

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Motivational
  • Meaningful
  • Target

• I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Forgiveness

• These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Lifting

• Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

  

  Barbara Bretton
  • Love
  • Things
  • Honey

• Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Spirit
  • Born
  • Deals