B Simone Quotes & Sayings

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers. — Sophie B. Hawkins

But your greatest blessing was of another order. In gaining my friendship through your charity - I have never encountered its equal - you have furnished me with a source of inspiration more powerful and more pure that one could find among human things. For nothing among human things is as powerful for maintaining our gaze, applied ever more intensely on God, than friendship with the friends of God. — Simone Weil

He thinks of it as playing good cop/bad cop. Except we play bad gang member/worse gang member. — Simone Elkeles

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it. — Simone Weil

I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time. — Nikki Giovanni

Please, amigo. We need you, Kimosabe, O Mighty Powerful One. We need you more than the earth rises in the west."
The sun rises in the east, dickhead."
Only if you're standing on the earth. If you're on the moon, the earth rises in the west. — Simone Elkeles

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything. — Simone Weil

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. — Simone Elkeles

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone De Beauvoir

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false? — Simone Weil

Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist."
"I'm proud of you. But why?"
I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep. — Simone Elkeles

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart. — Simone De Beauvoir

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning. — Simone De Beauvoir

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy. — Simone Weil

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan. — Simone De Beauvoir

Listen, Alex," she says, whipping herself around and tossing that sun-kissed hair over her shoulder. She faces me with clear eyes made of ice. "I don't date guys in gangs, and I don't use drugs."
"I don't date guys in gangs, either," I say, stepping closer to her. — Simone Elkeles

Two meh minutes of my life I'll never see again." Fallon snorted. "His basement couch had more of a thrill than I did. — Naima Simone

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. — Simone Weil

One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils. — Simone Weil

I flip open my phone to text Jessica:
Me: Guess who's pregnant?
Jess: u?
Me: Get real.
Jess: ur mom?
Me: yep
Jess: Mazel tov!?
Me: Don't congratulate me, plz
Jess: Could b worse
Me: How?
Jess: Could be u?
Me: I'm a virgin.
Jess: Nobody's perfect. — Simone Elkeles

Simone's mother was an unfortunate mistake. Palackas, Simone's father, was a bound demon who stumbled across her one night while he was carrying out an order for his master. One thing led to another ... he inserted part A into slot B, and he fell in love with her ... (Jaden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. — Simone De Beauvoir

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself
on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. — Simone De Beauvoir

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. — Simone Weil

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project — Simone De Beauvoir

Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win ... by big margins. — Simone Elkeles

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living. — Simone De Beauvoir

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served. — Nina Simone

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world. — Simone Weil

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. — Robert Wyatt

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be. — Simone Elkeles

Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush? — Simone Elkeles

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good. — Simone Weil

It was the purest heavens in the midst of the worst hell, and I loved every minute of it, even though it was all underpinned by a lie--my lie - and I knew one day it would burn down around me. — Sierra Simone

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession. — Simone Signoret