106th Signal Brigade Quotes & Sayings

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself. — Alex Lemon

The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings!
The fact is (again!) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much easier to drift down the river of discourse, "lazily, lazily, drowsily, drowsily, In the noonday sun."
Why is this so satisfactory? Because although we may not know what a word means, most words have a pleasant or unpleasant connotation, each for himself, either because of the ideas or images thus begotten, of hopes or memories stirred up, or merely for the sound of the word itself. — Aleister Crowley

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music. — Taylor Swift

every mind is at least as heavy as mine — Jerry Garcia

It's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography. — Gloria Steinem

If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but who molested you. — Chris Rock

Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does. — Kat Lahr

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools, — Bowe Bergdahl

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me. — Norman Lock

Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long. — Chelan Simmons

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake ... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Chuck Palahniuk