A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Women's handbags are incredibly heavy. You rarely get to pick one up and, when you do, you wonder why anyone carries so much stuff around all day.

A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

A. J. McLean
A. J. McLean

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

A. J. McLean
A. J. McLean

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.