Ida B Wells Suffrage Quotes & Sayings

We've all heard that in life, when one door is closed, another is opened. Unfortunately, many of us are so focused on the darkness left by what has been lost, we never see the light coming through the newly opened door. — Bill Crawford

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give. — Christian Louboutin

You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me. — Carole Maso

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. — Ida B. Wells

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music. — James Horner

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about. — John McEnroe

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. — Kevin Brockmeier

I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?" — Sarah Paulson

Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good
now, that's very difficult. — Jonathan Harr

Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort. — Lucinda Riley

I'm very busy, aunt, Henry replied, although he was clearly watching video game walk-throughs in his underwear. — Maggie Stiefvater

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints. — Jess Walter

Harry understood that those left behind - the failures and the deformed, the suffering and the dead - are not just equal in soul, but that they are we and we are they. Struggle as we may for distinction, soon enough we fail, and, without exception, follow. — Mark Helprin