Predominantemente Quotes & Sayings

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. — Rashid Johnson

We've had experiences where the president's been shot, but never had a situation where the vice president shot somebody. — Dick Cheney

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed. — Marva Collins

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. — Milton Mayer

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned. — Darren Shan

So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before. — William Adams

live well love hard and laugh often
— Jack Hardy

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. — F. Matthias Alexander

Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for. — Brad Bird

Ida Belle nodded. All sorts of things rose out of the ground during Edgar. Why, my mother's coffin popped straight up out of the grave and cruised down Main Street. I always said you couldn't keep Moter down — Jana Deleon

A good model can advance fashion by ten years. — Yves Saint-Laurent