Skylar Diggins Inspirational Quotes

#1. Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

John Milton

#2. Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Ron Chernow

#3. Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

Richard Proenneke

#4. The living can assist the imagination of the dead ...

W.B.Yeats

#5. A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

Michael Frayn

#6. Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Paulo Coelho

#7. She had made reason and common sense her gods.
She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

Mary Balogh

#8. My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

Haruki Murakami

#9. In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Bridget Riley

#10. Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.

Ray Berwick

#11. You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

Nick Rhodes

#12. Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!

Miriam Makeba

#13. In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Gabriela Mistral

#14. Every one of Dad's colleagues would eventually commit suicide, most by gunshot to the head, and every woman in their circle except for my mother would become a dysfunctional alcoholic. But in the fifties, they were all riding high.

Tim Gunn

#15. I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.

Junot Diaz