Nadine Gordimer Quotes
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
Nadine Gordimer
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Yuliya Snigir
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
Farnaz Fassihi
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson
I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
Maika Monroe
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
Charles Kennedy
I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.
Caroline Buchanan
Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
Alexandra Paul
My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the kitchen always had pots cooking with the lids were always bump, bump, bump, bump, bubbling, you know?
Kay Robertson
However, I love the smell of a good pipe.
Bobby Sherman
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
Nadine Gordimer
