Nikky Finney (Lynn Carol Finney) Quotes

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

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• I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Couple

• I know all the critics.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Know
  • Critics

• There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

  

  Han Suyin
  • World
  • inspirational

• I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Brain

• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • Friend
  • Best

• The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • World
  • Real
  • Effort

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Trying
  • You
  • Thousand

• My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.

  

  Adam Green
  • May
  • American
  • Memories

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moment

• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Man
  • Wine

• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Bad
  • Beginning

• When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Books
  • Gloom
  • Absorb

• Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Different
  • Long
  • Health

• Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Learning

• Neutral men are the devil's allies.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Men
  • Allies
  • Neutral

• If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

  

  Ethan Embry
  • School
  • Entertainment
  • Aspect

• My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

  

  Nikky Finney
  • Responsibility
  • Look
  • Away