John Agard Quotes

#1. I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

Paloma Faith

#2. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

Tim O'Brien

#3. The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

Henry Ford

#4. But Gracie, someday is here. Now. I'm not proposing to you or anything. I just want you to know, I've found the one for me ... in you.

Annie Brewer

#5. Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

Katie Price

#7. I'm cool right? There's no lipstick left on me?" he asked, his smirk turning into a full-wated smile. "I love getting kissed by women who claim they don't love me - makes my dick hard as a motherfucker.

Gail McHugh

#8. Love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

Michael DiMarco

#9. I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?

John Agard

#10. In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Joseph Joubert

#11. A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Alfred Hitchcock

#12. The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Philip James Bailey

#14. Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

John Agard

#15. When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

B.B. King

#16. It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

David Rudisha

#17. In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

Joyce Van Patten