Toni Morrison Quotes

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Toni Morrison

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WordsPainSameNo Words

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

Joe Biden

FatherCommunityRespectJobPlace

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

John Burroughs

PlantsBirdsLandscapeYouLook

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

Stromae

WorkMusicPeopleMeEndHealthy

What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced.

Rose McGowan

WorkWomenAngryEmotionRightUs

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

Mary Oliver

AloneHouseDownWantHillHand

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

Michael Stuhlbarg

WorkBeautifulChallengeThinkAdapt

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Lois Lowry

SonLostBeingFact

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.

Jay Ryan

LoveBeautyBookJudgeBeastInside

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Jonathan Lethem

WorkMeInformationFictionArts

The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.

Don Shula

ProudNobodyCloseEvenMostWins

I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.

Diane Lane

LoveTradeBeingMinuteGotYounger

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality.

Connor Franta

BrainRealityHelpSometimesCapture

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