Mickie Knuckles Quotes & Sayings

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. — Mao Zedong

Set your wings upon the sea wind
Set your eyes upon the stream
Feel the billow of the updraft
And believe in your dream
Know the mercy of these waters
Know the safety of the sky
Hear the voices in the distance
And believe - they will not lie. — Kathryn Lasky

I am trying to convince myself that failure is interesting. I look the word up in the American Heritage Dictionary to find its earliest incarnation, but it has always been just 'failure.' There's no Indo-European root meaning originally 'to dare' or 'mercy' or 'hummingbird' to make of the whole mess a mysterious poem. I can find no other fossilized remains in the word. Humility comes along on its own dime. — Abigail Thomas

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s. — Barton Gellman

Your faith today, whether great, small or none controls your destiny tomorrow — Fred Phillips III

You like to write. I value that in you. It's the single most important quality for somebody who wants to be a writer. — Haruki Murakami

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it. — William Arthur Ward

Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients. — Marcus Samuelsson

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here!
Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in Hunt the Moon — Karen Chance

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on. — Andrew Sullivan

I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong ... At age 69. — Paul Dirac

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. — John Masefield