Handholds For Stairs Quotes

#1. For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.

Michele Montas

#2. I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

Mika.

#3. When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

Rajneesh

#4. He said he believed in one true love, and that she was it for him. She was his person.

Jay McLean

#5. Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

#6. Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

Brian Greene

#7. In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.

Joseph Brodsky

#8. Modesty is a state of the heart. It veils the tongue. It clothes us in good manners. It envelops us with the best of behaviour.

T.J. Bowes

#9. When I looked up through the web of trees, the night sky fell over me, and for a moment, I lost my boundaries, feeling like the sky was my own skin and the moon was my heart beating up there in the dark.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

Jamie Bell

#11. I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

Bo Burnham

#12. I've always been a guy that has strived for dominating, not only winning.

Jon Jones

#13. My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

Eli Wallach

#14. I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

Zooey Deschanel