As A Woman

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ~Virginia Woolf

Like Grasses

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ~Toru Takemitsu

Spirit

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. ~Nikki Giovanni

Sometime

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. ~Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Subtle

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. ~Annie Leibovitz

Social Change

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong. ~Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Animals

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed? ~Morarji Desai

The World

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?
~Chris Rock

Imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan

Hope and Fear

Hope and fear cannot alter the season. ~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Life

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~Alice Walker

Different

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. ~Jock Sturges

Giving Birth

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ~Carol Burnett

A Fool

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles P. Steinmetz

Politeness

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
~Madame de Stael

Given

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. ~Denzel Washington

To Love

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~Anais Nin

For Justice

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice. ~Cesar Chavez

A Friend

The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend.
~Shusha Guppy

All Your Love

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. ~Tammy Wynette

Sex Object

My wife is a sex object. Everytime I ask for sex, she objects.
~Les Dawson

What Art Is

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat