Aminata Sow Quotes

#1. The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

William Wordsworth

#2. It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

Winston Smith

#4. I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.

Shekhar Kapur

#5. The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Jandy Nelson

#6. By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Jesmyn Ward

#7. I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith - no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone. - OMAR KHAYYAM

Ernest Becker

#8. The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ray Manzarek

#9. Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Rich Mullins

#10. You wear classic black Chanel with frightening aplomb. When you're not wearing those catastrophic muumuus.

Thea Harrison

#11. PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Hans Bender

#12. Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. Can you be sure?"
"I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.

Jessica Day George

#14. Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Nora Ephron