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 always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Up

• How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign

  

  Norah Jones
  • Up
  • Sky
  • Distance

• This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• I love it when a few simple ingredients come together on a plate, and I think, 'Wow, that's a dish.'

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Together
  • Simple

• 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