Xchocobars Quotes & Sayings

When you work, you are mining for success; rewards are disguised as work. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know. — Madonna Ciccone

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart. — Mark Hopkins

Writing time has to be created. — Gillian Roberts

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste. — Sheena Iyengar

I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies. — Ehren Kruger

One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which many repetitions and motifs recur and mirror one another. This is very much reflected within the stories: they have borders within borders, repeated motifs which change. They have their feet in oral conventions, and for the mnemonics, the storyteller needs to have a structure in order to remember the stories. — Marina Warner

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry. — Josephine Jacobsen

Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that. — Luis Gonzalez

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? — Mary Cassatt

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy. — Jada Pinkett Smith

Concentrate on what you will do, not what you should have done. — Jim Butcher

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself? — Joseph Joubert