Bob Kaufman Quotes
Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
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People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.
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Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful.
