Warsan Shire Quotes

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

Warsan Shire

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• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Well

• The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Time
  • Change

• I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Body

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Good
  • Song
  • Me

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Know

• The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • School
  • Why
  • Friends

• I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Mother
  • Language

• People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Evil

• I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Language

• The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Forever

• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Artist

• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Worry
  • Thought
  • Step

• As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.

  

  Rebecca Mader
  • Believe
  • Sometimes

• Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Business
  • Politics

• Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Sometimes
  • Protect
  • Personal