16852 Quotes & Sayings

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music. — Langdon Brown Gilkey

You don't have to be smart to get good grades, you just have to do what they tell you — Richard Paul Evans

My dad's life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline. — Lisa J. Shultz

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. — Roscoe Mitchell

The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity. — Billy Graham

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it. — Gloria Steinem

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. — J. E. H. MacDonald

Evaluate the demands in your child's life (at home and at school) - and find at least one "cognitive unicycle" that may be sabotaging him or her. Then, if you can, get rid of it. — Todd Rose

LOVE LESSON A good attitude is the secret to a happy relationship. Accept the person you married and don't constantly find fault." - Tex Gaynos — Cindy Hval

Lou reluctantly drew back, still holding Joe, and placed his soft lips on Joe's own. Existence reacted to their reunion. Immediately, it was as if two halves became whole once again. The sky flashed colors overhead as they stood together: day to night, night to day. They stood motionless and kissing for so long a period that they might have been mistaken for part of the landscape, as vines climbed up their legs and grass grew around them; as dirt gathered and buried even more the scattered fragments of the abbey. Only the keepers of time knew that lifetimes did indeed pass, possibly entire eras. And yet it was but a scant moment to Joe and Lou. All of it but a simple, longed-for embrace neither time nor death could contain. — Eric Arvin

Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth. — Emmanuel Carrere

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall. — Cynthia Ozick

As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based. — Ashley Purdy