Maya Angelou Quotes

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

Maya Angelou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CouragePracticePeopleYouWithout

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Jimmy Carter

FatherSportsGreatTimeBrotherMe

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WritingReadingProcessYouRight

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Jeff Kinney

LoveBraveWritingThinkPerfect

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Steve Jobs

CommitmentDesignYouUnderstandUp

I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going.

Robert Crais

LoveWeaknessFallStartedGoing

I don't choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It's not always thematic. I wanted to do 'The Grinch' because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey creating that kind of comic fantasy character live. I just thought that would be a mind-blowing experience, and it creatively was.

Ron Howard

LiveCharacterExperienceThink

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.

Jon Landau

FutureNameRockRollSawBruce

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Dick Cavett

TimeEyeSeeActNastyJust

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

Cindy Morgan

LifeFamilyLoveGoodTimeCooking

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

Bob Schaffer

LoveMoneySeeRestoreWouldFrench

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Bruce Springsteen

ChangeSuccessGoodFearMyselfMe

The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.

Brittany Howard

CarLiePeopleWorldDriveFriends

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