Unobvious Quotes

#1. Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. When you're a sledgehammer, you don't need to be unobvious. You just need one good hit.

Stylo Fantome

#3. Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.

Zinedine Zidane

#4. The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Carla H. Krueger

#5. As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

RuPaul

#6. It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#7. I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.

Wayne Rooney

#8. I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

Chadwick Boseman

#9. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#10. I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

Robert C. Merton

#11. Some people just shouldn't speak.

Elizabeth Johnson

#12. I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Eric Jensen

#13. You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Helen Gurley Brown

#14. It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway.

Katja Millay