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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...
— Lauren Oliver
Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office.
— Margo Kingston
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
— Jack Kingston
I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.
— Margo Kingston
When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For
— Marlon James
How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
My job is my own only land.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.
— Margo Kingston
Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.
— Karen Kingston
As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.
— Margo Kingston
Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, than neither can seeing.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
— Alex Kingston
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
— Jack Kingston
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
— Margo Kingston
The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia.
— Margo Kingston
Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.
— Margo Kingston
In a time of destruction, create something.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
— Jack Kingston
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
— Jack Kingston
The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
— Jack Kingston
Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
— Sean Kingston
Never underestimate the effect of clutter on your life.
— Karen Kingston
Mothers who love their children take them along.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
— Jack Kingston
For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:
— Maxine Hong Kingston
You can't eat straight A's.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Abdicating-Decision-Making
— Karen Kingston
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Adultery is extravagance.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature ... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Gods you avoid won't hurt you.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
When these pictures burst, the stars drew yet further apart. Black space opened. She got to her feet to fight better
— Maxine Hong Kingston
The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
— Alex Kingston
My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.
— Karen Kingston
I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
— Portia Simpson-Miller
Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.
— Sean Kingston
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
— Alex Kingston
Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.
— Sean Kingston
The weak can often become strong in the hands of the unscrupulous.
— Charles Kingston
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
— Desmond Dekker
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
— Jack Kingston
You're too young to decide to live forever.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Number one on my top five is Beyonce.
— Sean Kingston
It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.
— Sean Kingston
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
When you live surrounded by clutter, it is impossible to have clarity about what you are doing in your life.
— Karen Kingston
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)
— Maxine Hong Kingston
My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.
— Sean Kingston
It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.
— Margo Kingston
I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I think country has the biggest melodies ever.
— Sean Kingston
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
— Ronnie Corbett
Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.
— Miranda Liasson
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.
— Sean Kingston
In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.
— Alex Kingston
When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
— Jack Kingston
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
— Alex Kingston
I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.
— Alex Kingston
Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
And I had to get out of hating range.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
