Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
-
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
-
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
-
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
-
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
-
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
-
I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
-
I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
-
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
-
Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
-
After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
-
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
-
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
-
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
-
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
-
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
-
The only way to do the best you can is to work as hard as you can.
-
Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
-
College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.
-
Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.
-
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
-
No man may make another free.
