Gloriously Incandescent Quotes & Sayings

Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue! — T.A. Miles

I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one. — Clare Balding

If you are not receiving or making at least one introduction a month, you are probably not fully engaging your extended professional network. — Reid Hoffman

Pride ... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong. — Ezra Taft Benson

I'm pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn't matter. It does matter and it's time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we've all cut them too much slack for far too long. — Armistead Maupin

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do. — Damien Rice

They hate me because I am the worst thing possible. I am the bad mother.

But here's a secret: in America there are no good mothers. They simply don't exist. Always, there are a thousand ways to fail at this singularly important job. There are failures of the body and failures of the heart. The woman who is unable to breastfeed is a failure. The woman who screams for the epidural is a failure. The woman who picks up her child late knows from the teacher's cutting glance that she is a failure. The woman who shares her bed with her baby has failed. The woman who steels herself and puts on noise-canceling earphones to erase the screaming of her child the next room has failed just as spectacularly. They must all hang their heads in guilt and shame because they haven't done it perfectly, and motherhood is, if anything, the assumption of perfection. — Nayomi Munaweera

It's not the power of the curse, it is the power you give the curse. — Marilyn Kaye

I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate. — Fatou Bensouda