A quote from Ruby Dee about Ossie Davis
“I thought he looked very hungry. He looked so – he looked so poverty-stricken or something. I think that’s what I was thinking because he had...
Category: Biography
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson: first woman to give a political address to U.S. Congress
“This very young man who twirls his moustache in embryo, announces magnificently then, ‘Save me from ever marrying a strong-minded woman,’ and, looking at the s...
Marie Curie: “I have no dress except the one I wear every day.”
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put...
Richard Feynman quote: dealing with uncertainty
“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers whi...
Sophia Loren: “I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man.”
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an an...
A quote about dancing from Rita Hayworth
“As soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons…I didn’t like it very much, but I didn’t have the courage to tell my...
Madam C.J. Walker: “I have built my own factory on my own ground.”
“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And f...
Robin Williams: “I basically started performing for my mother, going, ‘Love me!'”
“I basically started performing for my mother, going, ‘Love me!’ What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “I love idleness.”
“I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change...
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