Yejide Sekou Quotes & Sayings

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing. — David Lynch

To whom should we listen? The loudest voices? The most educated? The formerly marginalized? The formerly powerful? Those with the most retweets? Those who have traditionally spoken for God are now looked at askance by many people, and with good reason. Too often they've used their Christian platform for political and military gain. They've forgotten that the story of God, exemplified in Jesus, is an abdication of power. It's a story of self-limitation and humility. It's a story lived in solidarity with those at the margins. To whom should we listen? To Jesus on the cross. — Tony Jones

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. — Ernest Hemingway,

When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it. — Lester Holt

Follow your passion and the rest will straighten itself out. — Danny Gregory

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original. — David Whyte

I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it. — Steven Wright

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. — Kenneth Koch

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. — Patricia Fuller

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring — Torquato Tasso