Abounded Def Quotes & Sayings

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely. — Stephen Graham Jones

But if you've got a woman, what are you doing here?"
"I don't have a woman but I'm afraid she has me. — Dianne Sylvan

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Me, a tease? I am not. I put out ... thank you very much.
- Jamie Killian — J.L. Langley

You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game. — Pippa Evans

Fire burns blue and hot.
Its fair light blinds me not.
Smell of smoke is satisfying, tastes nourishing to my tongue.
I think fire ageless, never old, and yet no longer young.
Morning coals are cool: daylight leaves me blind.
I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind. — Penny Reid

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action. — Anne Lamott

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. — Seamus Heaney

I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members. — Greg Boyle

My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively. — Sophia Amoruso

Many small make a great. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Learning is a process of refining errors to the point where they no longer prevent our desired goal. — Dan Millman

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter. — Robert Scheer

The whole thing starts with a single knot
and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop
in nothing. Look at it. Cast on, repeat
the procedure till you have a line
that you can work with.
It's a pattern made of relation alone,
my patience, my rhythm, till empty bights
create a fabric that can be worn,
if you're lucky and practised. It's never
too late
to pick up dropped stitches ...
(from "How to Knit a Poem") — Gwyneth Lewis