1871 Silver Quotes & Sayings

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being. — Jane Hirshfield

I brushed the curtain aside, scowling. Hadn't even spoken to the girl and I felt like a stalker staring out the window, waiting once more ... waiting for what? To catch a glimpse of her? Or to better prepare myself for the inevitable meeting?
If Dee saw me now, she'd be on the floor laughing.
And if Ash saw me right now, she'd scratch out my eyes and blast my new neighbor into outer space. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky.
It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you've got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control. — Karen Marie Moning

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. — Nelson Mandela

But it never really occurred to me to ask myself whether this was what I wanted too, — J.P. Delaney

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature. — Samuel Johnson

The Shakespearean theatre was the product of the entrepreneurial maritime culture of the age, — Boris Johnson

You were created to serve people with your gift — Sunday Adelaja

I was an echo of her. — Nova Ren Suma

People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate. — Matt Berninger

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive ... but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own. — Henry Green

Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it. — Joan Didion