Laura Nyro Quotes

Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction

Laura Nyro

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• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• 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.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Mind
  • Feels
  • Praise

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Risk

• The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Game

• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Time
  • Greed

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Different
  • Real
  • Meaning

• You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Want
  • Things
  • Happiness

• Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Unknown
  • Most
  • Rather

• With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Story
  • Facts

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Country

• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Up
  • Mother
  • High

• I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Couple

• One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Mean

• And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Understanding

• It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Children have as much mind to shew that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Good
  • Men
  • Mind

• Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction

  

  Laura Nyro