Niamien Simone Quotes & Sayings

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. — David Allen

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it. — Lionel Shriver

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books. — Horace Mann

Just as, all too often, some huge crowd is seized by a vast uprising, the rabble runs amok, all slaves to passion, rocks, firebrands flying. Rage finds them arms but then, if they chance to see a man among them, one whose devotion and public service lend him weight, they stand there, stock-still with their ears alert as he rules their furor with words and calms their passion. — Virgil

Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible. — Stephanie Laurens

Women are proverbially credulous. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness. — Irving Penn

We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort. — Ray Comfort

Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California, — Rob Ford

That's why it's hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line from the Bible, but it's so incredibly difficult sometimes, because when you've got reason to rejoice, you forget what it's like to mourn, even if you swear you never will. And because when you're mourning, the fact that someone close to you is rejoicing seems like a personal affront. — Shauna Niequist

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work. — George Lucas

Life is an experiment, I'm curious to see what will happen next. — Anastasia

philosophy teaches us to act, not to speak; — Seneca.