Harberson Swanston Quotes

#1. I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

Jamaica Kincaid

#3. Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.

Dionne Warwick

#4. Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

Shakti Gawain

#5. I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

Eric Weiner

#6. The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#7. Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

Simon Winchester

#8. There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library - a library as magnificent as this one - was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine.

Ross King

#9. For everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

Ruskin Bond