59 Seconds Quotes

#1. I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.

Anita Baker

#2. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. I suddenly got used to that feeling of being in control, which I never, ever feel when I'm not onstage - a feeling that you're the master of your own universe.

Seinabo Sey

#4. People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

Robin McKinley

#5. When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.

Piet Mondrian

#7. Design is people.

Jane Jacobs

#8. Any philosophy, no matter how perfect, works only for a finite period.

Amish Tripathi

#9. Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.
Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)

Sally Harris

#10. People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

David Miliband

#11. In short, we are all goin.

John Green

#12. I feel like the whole world is off balance. Like I'm losing my shit. Like there's this cliff and I don't even realize I'm on the edge.

Megan Miranda

#13. If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.

Gerald Stern