Jairon Howard Quotes & Sayings

He was living in a modern world all right, but didn't always feel like he belonged here, in the first years of this new and daunting century. He thought most people felt as jittery and out of place as he did, and that all the optimistic new Edwardians you heard about were only in the papers. Looking round him at the passing people, from their faces and the way they dressed you wouldn't know the Queen was dead eight years, but then when everyone was poor they tended to look much the same from one reign or one era to another. Poverty was timeless and you could depend upon it. It was never out of fashion. — Alan Moore

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise — Isadora Duncan

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation. — Chuck Close

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders. — Brenda Lee

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects. — Big Pun

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me. — Lance Armstrong

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. — Caio Fonseca

George Smith shows how many of the prophet's followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice ... [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style. — Daniel Walker Howe

I'm a huge movie nerd. — John Corey Whaley

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world ... jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties.. — Munia Khan

Where do they go when they die? We hear of the elephant graveyards, where the elephants go to die, but how much more curious it is that birds are not falling out of the sky all the time, on our heads, at our feet, dying and falling and flopping to the ground. I rarely see a dead bird on the ground. — Sophy Burnham