African Spir Quotes

The appalling and shameful scene of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

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• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Very

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Play
  • Characters

• Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.

  

  Ovid

• I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

  

  M. H. Abrams

• Vanity not only distances us from God: it makes us look ridiculous.

  

  Vanity
  • God

• Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Reality

• When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

  

  Conrad Black

• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • She
  • Strong

• My body is an instrument for me to use.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • School
  • Crazy
  • Priority

• It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

  

  Scott Stapp
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Long
  • Writing

• I worry about the world.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • World
  • Worry

• No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Way
  • Living

• And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Brother

• In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • People
  • Space

• If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Boss

• It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Men
  • Mediocrity
  • Rejected

• The appalling and shameful scene of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

  

  African Spir
  • Men
  • Consciouness
  • Disarray