Shiyoon Quotes & Sayings

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art. — Jill Scott

Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children — Bangambiki Habyarimana

And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry. — Marianne Williamson

Common sense was exactly what kingship, almost by definition, lacked: when the king's orders were executed no one dared to tell him honestly how they had turned out. With the absolute powers bestowed by kingship came an arrogance, a ruthlessness, an inflexibility, a habit of compulsion, an unwillingness to listen to reason, that no small community would have endured from any of its members-though the aggressive and humanly disagreeable qualities that make for such ambitious leadership might be found anywhere-as Margaret Mead discovered among the Mundugumor, whose leaders were known to the community as "really bad men," aggressive, gluttonous for power and prestige. — Lewis Mumford

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms. — Nigel Hamilton

The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue. — Zen Cho

Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I've watched him grow. He deserves it all. — Samuel Eto'o

If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life ... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it. — W. H. Auden

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach. — Rick Reilly

Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies. — Leonard Read

Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident — John Berger