"Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."

-- Maya Angelou

#Communication Quotes #Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build”
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”
“Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.”
“As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,”

Source : "Mirza hits back for modern Muslims" by Robert Philip, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 01, 2007.
“Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.”
“Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
“Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.”
“Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.”

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