Leonora Carrington Quotes

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin
- Hands
- Our
- Asleep
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Ornette Coleman
- Great
- Trying
- Rest
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

Dan Rosensweig
- Good
- Think
- Doing
I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

Iman
- Power
- Know
- Best
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- May
- Poetry
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

Harbhajan Singh
- Good
- Bad
- Happy