Karen Lord Quotes

I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.

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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

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Small
  • Understand
  • Fast

• The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• 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

• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Evil
  • Human
  • Bed

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Calling

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Work
  • Education
  • Myself

• 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

• You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Progress
  • Helpful

• 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

• I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Want
  • Everyone

• We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Travel
  • Daily
  • Charity

• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• If any female - or male - does something in order to get 'likes' on their video or to get fans, they're being exploited, and they're actually selling out to a certain extent.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Order
  • Female
  • Video

• And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • People
  • Remember
  • Justice

• I'm far from being a homosexual.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Being
  • Far
  • Homosexual

• This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Problem

• I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.

  

  Karen Lord
  • Sometimes
  • Stills
  • Findings