Gms Homepage Quotes & Sayings

The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark

I'm cancer, Luce. And not the kind that you can kill off with radiation. The kind that kills you in the end. — Nicole Williams

Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community. — Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State. — Ali Abdullah Saleh

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble. — Tom Freston

I was a reader before I was a writer, and when I started putting together my first collection of short stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, I drew on my rich history as a reader to try and create my voice. I wanted this voice to reflect my Somali background, my Kenyan upbringing and my London home. This voice would be a mashup of all the elements that formed my youth; the sticky-sweet Jamaican patois, the Kenyan street slang, my Somali and Italian linguistic tics, my love of jazz poetics and nineties hip-hop slanguistics. This language would form the bed on which my narratives of love, loss, identity and hope would rest. — Diriye Osman

There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave. — Graham Joyce

Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias. — Adam Phillips

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show. — Godfrey Gao

You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen. — Angela Lansbury

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it. — Vaclav Havel

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart. — Kate DiCamillo

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. — Zora Neale Hurston

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway

The woman is always more important than the clothes. — Peter Lindbergh