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Maureen Duffy: I think basically...

Maureen Duffy: I think basically...

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

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Judith Jamison: I felt the...

Judith Jamison: I felt the...

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and...

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Susan RoAne: The time spent...

Susan RoAne: The time spent...

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom...

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Judith Jamison: So many people...

Judith Jamison: So many people...

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which...

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Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by...

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Alice Meynell: Recurrence is sure....

Alice Meynell: Recurrence is sure....

Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again...

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Britney Spears: I'm so happy...

Britney Spears: I'm so happy...

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have...

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George Eliot: One way of...

George Eliot: One way of...

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...

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George Eliot: Our passions do...

George Eliot: Our passions do...

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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George Eliot: It always remains...

George Eliot: It always remains...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against...

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George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...

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Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...

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Agatha Christie: The human mind...

Agatha Christie: The human mind...

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will,...

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Patricia McKillip: Those who fear...

Patricia McKillip: Those who fear...

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of...

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Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.


Source:
-- Maya Angelou,...

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