Suzany Rego Quotes & Sayings

The moral of the story, Son," Pun would say, "is Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels."
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us. — Janisse Ray

How do you listen to this shit? It sounds like two cat's screwing in a trashcan. — Colleen Masters

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony. — Ben Folds

Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone. — Jonathan Tropper

To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature. — James Thurber

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that. — Joan Armatrading

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up. — Emma Donoghue

You cannot see the mountain near ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you. — Sturgill Simpson

The call of the horizon finds quick response in the heart of every wanderer. — Louis L'Amour

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life. — Tom Brokaw

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert

If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system? — Gary Paul Nabhan

Who says that art and science cannot coincide? Art is seen as subjective, and science is seen as objective. Paintings, drawings, and sculptures can contain geometric patterns. Most anything you can mix in a beaker or a Petri dish could be displayed as art. The point is that there is art in science, and there is science in art. — Jen Selinsky