Harpo And Sofia Quotes & Sayings

I exist in two places,
here and where you are. — Margaret Atwood

Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner. — Anne Lamott

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look. — Marie Helvin

the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts. — Steven Levy

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery. — Nicolas Chamfort

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. — Alice Walker

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help. — Laura Miller

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles ... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community. — Noah Webster

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you. — Noah Levine

Create your own community of liberation. From this moment on, direct your most concerted efforts, your best work, and your greatest feats of imagination toward creating the impossible community, and do so first of all precisely where you are, with those around you. — John P. Clark

A good conscience will prevail a bad decision. — Anthony Liccione

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now. — Duke Ellington