Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897

Topics

LifeLiveJealousyMeRestJealous

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.

Melvyn Bragg

RomanticMeListenSheOutHer

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

Ruby Dee

LifeDieContradiction

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men. Straight people can write about gay people; gay people can write about straight people.

Mike O'Malley

WomenMenImaginationPeopleYou

The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.

Luke Davies

MeMovingMatterWhereOnlyWhose

I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

Jonathan Vilma

MoneyGameNeverPayOutPaid

When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

Debbie Ford

LifeLoveGreatServiceChoicesYou

I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.

Chauncey Billups

DayDriveEvery DayAlmostRoverSS

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

Shane Carruth

WorkArchitectureYouI CanKnow

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Timothy Noah

HealthMedicalGovernmentCareSlow

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

Leonard Maltin

AnimationFilmPolarAttemptExpress

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

Kent Beck

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When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

Kirk Cameron

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