Afropolitan Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

Build peaks, and former highlands become flatlands--ordinary topography loses its allure. The attempt to make our lives not a waste, by seeking a few most remarkable incidents, will make the rest of our lives a waste. The concept of experience turns us into dwellers in a plateau village who hold on to a myth of the happier race of people who live on the peaks. We climb up occasionally, but only with preparation, for short expeditions. We can't stay there, and everyone is restless and unsatisfied at home. — Mark Greif

Life is unpredictable and it doesn't follow a map. — Autumn Doughton

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations. — Neill Blomkamp

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth. — George Oppen

If you want the crown, America, take it. Take it. Because it should be yours. — Kiera Cass

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. — Tim O'Brien

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do. — LeToya Luckett

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. — Bill Joy

Watch the stars, and from them learn. — Albert Einstein

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar. — Nick Offerman

Fun fact: The planet Venus- aka, the 'morning star' when it appears before sunrise, outshining all the stars in the heavens-was once known as Luciferin.
Funner fact: The chemical that makes fireflies' butts light up is called luciferin — Jeri Smith-Ready