Outsider Richard Wright Quotes & Sayings

If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough? — Albert Einstein

My heavy heart has gone this way before. — Kenneth Rexroth

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers. — John F. Kennedy

I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors. — Ellsworth Kelly

I did easy yoga and I found it a bit boring. I'm now doing a more difficult one now and I'm enjoying it a bit more. I occasionally still work out with my trainer Tracy Anderson. — Lara Stone

We must redefine the word food, or we must redefine the word cannibal. — Philip Wollen

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? — Richard Wright

I come from a background of independent films. — Mia Wasikowska

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. — Marcus Aurelius

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way. — Will Smith

I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty. — Jodi Picoult

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it. — Robert Anton Wilson

Patriotism is a menace to liberty. — Emma Goldman

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one? — Lewis Carroll