Conceptualizers Quotes & Sayings

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity. — Jackie Kay

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for. — Mahatma Gandhi

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out. — Paula Poundstone

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation. — Marc Evan Jackson

A kid thinks her mother is just that
hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't. — J. Courtney Sullivan

If we don't cannibalize ourselves, someone else will. — Steve Jobs

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding — Toni Morrison

One day, kid, you'll be willing to mortage your fucking soul for somebody. — Karen Marie Moning

What we've been denied is what we deny others. But why? Why do we fall into the same patterns of those people we always swore we'd never be like? — Nicole Williams