Bessie Head Quotes

#1. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

Sam Raimi

#3. A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

Bessie Head

#4. Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

P.D. James

#5. People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

Bessie Head

#6. I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

John Daly

#7. And just like that, I fall to pieces.

Ava Harrison

#8. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.

Patsie Smith

#9. I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

Bessie Head

#10. I could feel the muscles in my face twitch as his response sunk into me. It was a resounding no with a slap of you fucking drunk attached.

Cassandra Giovanni

#11. Though all the major fairy tale families were coming tonight, I wouldn't exactly call any of them friends. Aside from the once-a-year gathering, I never spoke to any of them, except the occasional chat on Flitter with Cinderella, since we shared a love of designer footwear.

Betsy Schow

#12. Eric dreamed big but settled for reality.

Dave Cullen

#13. So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

Helena Christensen

#14. Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

#15. I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

Bessie Head

#16. An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

Yves Behar

#17. Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

Bessie Head

#18. If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

Diplo

#20. I write because I have authority from life to do so.

Bessie Head

#21. It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Bessie Head

#22. I could train myself out of all this. Like a smoker, I could cut down. Like a drinker, I could kick the bottle. Like someone in love, I could learn to redesign the route to my heart so someone else stood a chance in hell of navigating it. I could do this.

Jessica Thompson