Gayl Jones Quotes

I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Very
  • Ride
  • Park

• Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Know
  • Support
  • Sister

• You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Know

• The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Power
  • Someone
  • Admire

• When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • People
  • Different
  • Style

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Gold

• I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

  

  Larry Wall

• Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.

  

  Lucretius

• Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Up
  • Power
  • Fear

• I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

  

  Kenny Marchant
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Record

• What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Success
  • motivation
  • Students

• In all superstition wise men follow fools.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fools
  • Superstition
  • Wise Men

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
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