Laverne Hooks Quotes

#1. Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

Brene Brown

#3. This is the thing about redheads, isn't it? No matter how long you've lived with them, you're always surprised when they turn and look straight at you.

Marlon James

#4. You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
- Anne Shirley

L.M. Montgomery

#5. We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

Brian Cox

#6. I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

Laverne Cox

#7. The woman who looks back at me from my bathroom mirror is sliding toward her mid-fifties. She'd better be careful- she's getting old.
I myself am about thirty. I've been thirty for about twenty-three years now.

Cheryl Peck

#8. I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

James Q. Wilson

#10. It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

Bernie De Koven

#11. Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.

Subir Chowdhury

#12. There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

Chris Hardwick

#13. I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

Jacqueline Bisset

#14. Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Russell Baker

#15. For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

#16. It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie