Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
Quotes to Explore
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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Procul omen abesto!
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Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!
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There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.
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I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.
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Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
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People think that I don't like women.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
