Hakima Payne Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk. — John Steinbeck

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it. — Oscar Wilde

But I wanted to read it now, I needed it now, even if I knew I'd never finish. I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, — Don DeLillo

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is. — Shia Labeouf

what can I say? Can't beat fictional boyfriends. They're the best. *** — Jo Raven

We were convinced that she looked on with indifference if she noticed us at all. Today I know that everything watches, that nothing goes unseen, and that even wallpaper has a better memory than ours. It isn't God in His heaven that sees all. A kitchen chair, a coathanger, a half-filled ash tray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can perfectly well serve as an unforgetting witness to every one of our acts. — Gunter Grass

I've always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they're still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that's not well organized upside down, it won't work. — William Eggleston

But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist. — Diane Wood Middlebrook

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age. — George Bernard Shaw

A task is a burden only when it has not been tackled. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker. — Tom DeLay

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. — Jules Michelet