Westernmost African Quotes & Sayings

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will. — Mark Sanchez

I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about ... you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow ... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human. — Sarah Kay

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. — Rob Reiner

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Ronde, one a live village and the other deserted, as dead as Karnak, — Ursula K. Le Guin

Acceptance is an affirmation that you're good enough. — Bill Konigsberg

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. — Vera Farmiga

I'm a dead end, Adam." And at that moment, that was exactly how I felt inside ... a dead end. — Jenni Moen

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has. — Raymond Chandler

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. — Fernando Pessoa

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages. — Annie Lennox