"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."

-- Anne Stevenson

#Friends Quotes #Art Quotes #Shy Quotes

“I had been, like, 'I don't wanna be a singer anymore', so dramatic, but when I was recording with Brian Higgins I was like, oh my god I love this, I love these songs, I love what this is. And then we just kept on working and working until we got more songs.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.”
“I think you still have a problem here when you're going and you're looking not just that Trump is winning, but he's winning in a broad swath of voters. It's not just that he's got this one lane, oh, he only wins when there's low turnout, he only wins when conservatives, he only wins in these kinds of states. He wins enough across a broad array.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.
“Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.”

Source : Danielle Trussoni (2013). “Angelopolis: A Novel”, p.75, Penguin
“The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.”
“One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldviewâ€”not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these casesâ€¦ but people prefer reassurance to research.”
“Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.”
“Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.”

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