Jamaica Kincaid Famous Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is the right to sow what you want. It's the right to make boots or shoes, it's the right to bake bread from the grain you've sown and to sell it or not sell it as you choose. It's the same whether you're a locksmith or a steelworker or an artist - freedom is the right to live and work as you wish and not as you're ordered to. But there's no freedom for anyone - whether you write books, whether you sow grain, or whether you make boots." That night Ivan Grigoryevich lay — Vasily Grossman

Star gazing in a hammock? That sounds like a bad romance novel cliche! — Katie Ashley

THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH IS THE FIRST BEAUTY. MILLIONS OF years before us the earth lived in wild elegance. Landscape is the first-born of creation. Sculpted with huge patience over millennia, landscape has enormous diversity of shape, presence and memory. — John O'Donohue

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn't really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children's theater groups. — Nina Arianda

The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers. — Leopold Auer

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I aspired to be the better me of my future. — Toba Beta

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. — Chris Brasher

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. — John Keats

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. — Dave Winer

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. — Jeff Koons

So ... You are well equipped for our service.'
'Which is?'
'We kill people. — R.L. LaFevers

You can't buy happiness. You can't earn it. God isn't counting all the deals you're racking up. — Jenny B. Jones

No, just listen. I'm going to tell you the amazing story of us. — Alexandra Bracken

With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating. — Jim Rash