Ashleigh Murray Quotes

My hair was curly, and everyone else's was straight or in micro braids. I didn't have a lot of money, so I shopped at thrift stores. And I'm petite - I never looked shapely. I remember thinking, 'Will I ever have that stereotypical round, full butt that people think most black women have? I had to find another way to feel good about myself.

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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Opinion

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rock

• You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Story

• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Year
  • Run

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Why
  • Book
  • Fun

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Nails

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Best
  • Start
  • Tradition

• I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

  

  Lisa See
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Wonder

• I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• My hair was curly, and everyone else's was straight or in micro braids. I didn't have a lot of money, so I shopped at thrift stores. And I'm petite - I never looked shapely. I remember thinking, 'Will I ever have that stereotypical round, full butt that people think most black women have? I had to find another way to feel good about myself.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking