Gloria Naylor Quotes

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Gloria Naylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1950 - September 28, 2016

Topics

LiveYouBornWithoutAnythingHalf

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

WorldChampionYoungPlayboyLad

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

ArtFindKnowSayListenCritics

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Michael Hayden

GreatMomentDayIntelligenceTry

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Robert A. Heinlein

LoveHappinessMistakesLove IsMind

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.

Miguel Syjuco

CreativeWritingEndViewBackGo

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

Michael Pollan

LiveEatingGoKnowNowAnimals

Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit.

Mitch McConnell

OpportunityAmericaUniqueCountry

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Joseph Conrad

StrengthWineOutThroughIndecent

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

Dick Cheney

ResilienceThinkAmericanYouBody

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

Debi Gliori

TimeArtMyselfLieIdeasNight

I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

Cornelia Parker

SleepNeverNeedWeekendsGetHours

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

Brian McKnight

MistakesSingingPerfectFeeling

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