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Maya Angelou Quotes

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

Topics

Son Children Blessing People Birth

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

Time Finding Sanity Just Yoga Too

I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'

People Start Saying Name Giving You

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Fly Language Literature Early Teach

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Time Romantic Waste Metaphor Least

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Family Father Church Enough Off

When I say something, I mean it.

Say Mean Something

My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like.

Comedy Kind Things Like Some

We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

Freedom Speech Freedom Of Speech Idea

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

Christian Louboutin

Clothes Things Million Directing

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

Good Car Racing Remember You Back

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

I Am Doubt Never Course Staying Am

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

Anthony Hamilton

I Am Me You Go Three Songwriting

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