Laryea Toronto Quotes & Sayings

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. — Charles Duhigg

Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were "keeping it real" when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around. — Bell Hooks

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God. — Thomas A Kempis

Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda. — Jonah Goldberg

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story. — Maria Semple

This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost. — William T. Vollmann

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say ... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar. — Martin Scorsese

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame. — Roger Ebert

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out. — Angelina Jolie

[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets. — David Milne

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season. — Marian Seldes