Messay Getahun Quotes & Sayings

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston

My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight. — Dorothy Hamill

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees. — Heinrich Heine

I stood up and asked, "What in the world is wrong with leading? — Gloria Feldt

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character. — Mary Jo Putney

I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination. — Tyne Daly

In order to change, however, you have to be willing to acknowledge the need for change - in other words, you have to come to terms with the fact that everything in your life isn't perfect. There is this concept - among not just Scientologists, but everyone - that we are all supposed to have it together. Whether it's our work, love lives, family relationships, or even feelings about ourselves, we need to present this idealized image to others. We are so conditioned when asked "How are you?" to say "Good" or "Great." But why not "I don't know. I hate everyone today." Why are we so scared to be judged imperfect or to talk about how we really feel? To be authentic? If we can just tell each other how and what we are really doing, step outside of what we believe others think we should be, the result can be therapeutic. — Leah Remini

I felt very close to God ... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees. — Armistead Maupin

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke. — Chris Rock

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. — Daniel Day-Lewis

But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day? — Unica Zurn

The masses of Negroes ... particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit ... — Margaret Sanger