Laura Nyro Quotes
Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction
Quotes to Explore
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it.
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
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A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.
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Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.
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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.
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Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction
