Dany Laferriere Quotes

Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

Dany Laferriere

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• Sleep
• Surrender

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• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Team
  • Best

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Grow

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Summer
  • Shadow

• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Present

• Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Money
  • America
  • Political

• With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

  

  Kevin Rose

• American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Up
  • Women
  • American

• Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Waiting
  • Humble
  • Terrorism

• But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Happiness

• I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • People
  • Black
  • Faith

• Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

  

  Dany Laferriere
  • Night
  • Reason
  • Sleep