Top 24 Selima Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Selima

#1. I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

Selima Hill

#2. An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Selima Hill

#3. It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

Jackson Pollock

#4. Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.

Henry Suso

#5. If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#6. Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

John Poindexter

#7. I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced ...

Selima Hill

#8. When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Selima Hill

#9. What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

Selima Hill

#10. Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

Selima Hill

#12. Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

Josie Bissett

#13. She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

David Brin

#14. There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

Selima Hill

#15. If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

Selima Hill

#16. Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Selima Hill

#18. The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Selima Hill

#19. Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

Selima Hill