Susan L. Taylor Quotes
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
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I've always wanted to play a samurai warrior.
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I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.
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For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby. It's that I can get on the subway and eavesdrop on conversations that I would never have access to otherwise. That's why I stay. That's why I could never leave.
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...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.
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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
