Nora Raleigh Baskin Quotes

There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.

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• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wish

• The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

  

  Usher
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Best
  • Years

• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Job
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • World
  • Words
  • Energy

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Science

• If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

  

  Jack Valenti

• If you really want to get over someone or something in your life, I suggest you throw on some Ivy Queen. She will have you feeling extra bossy.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life
  • She
  • Feeling

• I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Help

• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Focus
  • Heaven

• We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• ... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • World
  • History
  • Small

• I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Love
  • American

• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Connection
  • Worlds
  • Live In