Caryl Phillips Quotes
Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.
Caryl Phillips
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
Kate Walsh
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
Vijay Kumar
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
Pat Metheny
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
Zendaya
I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
Mads Mikkelsen
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann
I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
La'Porsha Renae
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
Jack Osbourne
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
E. O. Wilson
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
Luciano Berio
You're the pain in my - The hurricane in my - Supersensitive heart, dear. Still I love you, I know, And the reason is merely because You irritate me so!
Cole Porter
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
Morrissey
The Smiths
If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Shakespeare is definitely my first love.
Andre Holland
I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
Bob Crosby
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
Donald Norman
I've got a great place, it's a country house.
Lita Ford
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.
JJ Feild
Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
Lao Tzu
Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.
Caryl Phillips
