Karen Blixen Quotes

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

Karen Blixen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: April 17, 1885 - September 7, 1962

Topics

CoffeeMeMoonSongBackKnow

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

John Berger

HopeStoryHandPassed

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.

Rob Zombie

GreatThinkYouWhiteWorstReason

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

Michael Nesmith

WrongNothingTradeClichesThose

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

Michael Palin

ThinkSlowDoingDownRaceHuman

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Mira Sorvino

FeelSomeoneYouKnowSomethingHow

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Lou Reed

LifeLiveMusicBestListeningYou

I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

Louis Theroux

MeDownSometimesBasicsSomething

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

Domhnall Gleeson

RisksYouActingSometimesActorUp

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

Christina Ricci

WorkGrowLearnActingI CanBuild

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

Brian May

QueenYouWhyThingsExpectThem

I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent.

Tia Mowry

PositiveLearningMeBetterHelpGo

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Norman Vincent Peale

YouWillAlwaysBreakKeepBow

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