Displaced Person Quotes

#1. The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.

Svetlana Boym

#2. Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.
He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Janet Fitch

#3. I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

Siobhan Fahey

#4. Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Anita Borg

#5. I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Fiona Apple

#6. I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

Stevie Nicks

#7. I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Laura Mvula

#8. We don't manage time, we manage activities within time

Bernard Kelvin Clive