Maya Angelou Quotes

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TogetherWallMeanBallUpAgainst

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Joely Richardson

MistakesMindGrowBetterLongYou

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

Aminatta Forna

DayDeskFacebookStayChecking

'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance.

Rob Manuel

LifePathTreeDanceAdventureJoy

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

Donella Meadows

CongressSpecialPresidentHighBeen

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

Clarence Clemons

ArtCookingCreativeFormThing

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Bob Hoskins

MoneyI AmFaceRichVeryHandy

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Allan Bloom

EasyStudentLaborNowBecomeOnly

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Algernon Blackwood

BeautifulMoonEvilPlaceEmotions

Having hibernation weekends where I just sleep for hours on end. Working out when you have those spare moments. All of that is very important.

Poppy Delevingne

SleepEndMomentsYouImportantOut

What drew me to Kazakhstan was a curiosity to learn about life in this 'middle earth' of steppe between the endless forests of Russia in the north and the world's greatest mountain chains to the south.

Tim Cope

LifeMountainMeWorldCuriosity

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

Marti Noxon

MyselfMeGivingLegsShavingWho

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

Leonard Slatkin

LeadershipLeaderCommunityWrongGo

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