Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

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• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

  Imelda May
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Church

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• Really I peeped dude at the bar like really Lookin like he want a good time like really Said he had a friend for my homegirl Lilly Lilly Lilly Lilly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Happy
  • Night

• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Taught

• He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

  

  Lisa See
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Care

• I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Home
  • Ugly
  • Adultery

• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Succeed
  • Terrible

• When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Stone
  • Greece
  • Fiery

• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Ocean

• Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Economic
  • Relation
  • Higher

• I like to make collages - paper collages.

  

  Rachel True
  • Like
  • Make
  • Paper

• I'm drowning in papers.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Paper
  • Papers
  • Drowning