Arna Bontemps Quotes

#1. The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

Theodor Reik

#2. The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it.

June Goodfield

#3. I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

Frances Wright

#4. Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely,
Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely;
Who never commits any theft or never shows ingratitude certainly,
And never indulges in drinking is a person who is always happy.
[99] - 33 Mahatma Vidur

Munindra Misra

#5. There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Leigh Hunt

#6. Jesus came to be the light for the world, and then there's the Christmas star and the idea of letting your light shine...But not blinding your neighbor with it.

Marta Perry

#7. I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

Leonard Slatkin

#8. Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Arna Bontemps

#9. I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

Barton Gellman

#10. I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

Julie Bowen

#11. Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?

Arna Bontemps

#12. How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Arna Bontemps

#13. The next morning, the earth was strewn with debris from the windstorm the night before. An audience of trees looked down on severed limbs cast about the ground, their hunched and beaten postures reminding me of a congregation of amputees gathered in the wake of a war.

John Burley

#14. Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Twiggy

#15. To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.

Bow Wow

#16. Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

Arna Bontemps

#17. No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

T. E. Hulme