Reappraising Performance Quotes

#1. Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#2. I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#3. Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Steven Brust

#4. Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that
little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#5. God might have been either drunk or naughty when he was creating women.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

Jan Jansen

#7. I dreamed of being able to share my thoughts and feelings and hopes without thinking they were going to make fun of me and think I was silly, and I have that.

Rebecca St. James

#8. If, in monotheism, God is man, man is God. Why does God look suspiciously like the ruling class? Why is Jesus, a Jewish guy from the Middle East, blond and blue-eyed? There

Gloria Steinem

#9. Do you read, Mr. Quinn?" he asked. "Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist.

Charles Baxter

#10. A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

Simon Barnes

#11. 5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. * + 6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like

Anonymous

#12. No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.

Wangari Maathai