Brilliant Quotes - Page 27

• A hashtag is not helping... A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr. King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Kings, Doe, Drs

  Shonda Rhimes' Commencement Address at the Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 8, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them... I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person - and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole. I wouldn't want them to know the me who didn't get to do this all day long. I wouldn't want them to know the me who wasn't doing.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Daughter, Mother, Running

  Shonda Rhimes' Commencement Address at the Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 8, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Thinking, Race, Together

  4 Copy quote

• I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Two, Three, Attention

  4 Copy quote

• Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Optimism, Choices, Cynicism

  Twitter post from Jul 30, 2014

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Flower, Food, Thinking

  11 Copy quote

• Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Trying, Being The Best, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Excess, Satisfaction, Passing

  6 Copy quote

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

  Maya Angelou

  Ocean, Writing, Swim

  7 Copy quote

• Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

  Micere Githae Mugo

  Writing, Growth, Process

  9 Copy quote

• Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Sex, Race

  58 Copy quote

• Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

  Alice Walker

  Revolution, Consciousness, Rebellion

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.236, New Press, The

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

  George Washington

  Passion, Envy, Reason

  George Washington (2010). “George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

  George Washington

  Giving, Speak, Civility

  "The Writings of George Washington".

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, Principles, Firsts

  Samuel Johnson (1792). “The Rambler”, p.354

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Agency, Tasks

  "How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Self, Intellectual

  Noam Chomsky (1989). “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies”, p.8, Pluto Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.

  Blind Willie McTell

  Ems, Way, My Own

  9 Copy quote

• Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

  Hermann Weyl

  Quality, Cold, Mathematics

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.

  Luis Figo

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  43 Copy quote

• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Average, Deep Thought

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Beautiful, Book, Pages

  4 Copy quote

• Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

  Afua Cooper

  Spiritual, Pain, Book

  9 Copy quote

• The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

  Jonathan Evison

  Writing, Character, Math

  38 Copy quote

• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

  9 Copy quote