Karen Lord Quotes

In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'

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• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Celebrity
  • Pretend
  • Commercial

• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Say
  • Lesbian

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Age
  • Goal

• Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Love
  • Oil

• I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Strong
  • Spirit
  • Rebellious

• All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Free
  • Me
  • Choice

• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Actor

• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Today
  • Story
  • Information

• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Great
  • Happy
  • House

• I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Done

• It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.

  

  Connie Willis
  • God
  • She
  • Church

• They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • King

• I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

  

  Penelope Lively
  • Children

• The motto of the Netherlands is translated into English as 'I will uphold.' But I want you to know that, as we go forward, our message together is not just 'I will uphold,' but 'we will uphold.'

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Together
  • English

• If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Together
  • Perish
  • Surely

• No,” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.” “I’m still not kissing you,” Michael said. “Tease.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Together
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Together
  • Water
  • Freak

• In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'

  

  Karen Lord
  • Together
  • Building
  • Instruction