Claude McKay Quotes
The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,A chafing savage, down the decent street;And passion rends my vitals as I pass,Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.
Claude McKay
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
Taraji P. Henson
I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
Ian Hart
As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
Natasha Bedingfield
I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
Carla Gallo
We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.
Edgar Ramirez
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
Barbara Jordan
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
Randy West
When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
Vera Wang
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
Ian Frazier
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
Zack Snyder
This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.
Leonard Cohen
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
H. L. Mencken
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
Samuel Beckett
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
Billy Joel
It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,A chafing savage, down the decent street;And passion rends my vitals as I pass,Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.
Claude McKay
