Achjaranet Quotes & Sayings

Tell yourself whatever you need to hear, you're the only one listening. — Gia Carangi

And except on a certain kind of winter evening - six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that - except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. — Joan Didion

Goats are extremely cute and fairly intelligent (for livestock) and, importantly, delicious. — Time-Life Books

Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed. — Oprah Winfrey

I do not love hot more than I love cold, high more than low, left more than right. It is all relative. It is all part of what is. — Neale Donald Walsch

I had to get their first. — Dan Rix

Gear is money, and if there's one thing we know about Hollywood, it's that money talks. — Elle Schneider

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue. — Mary Oliver

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated. — Ralph Nader

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire — Colm O'Rourke

Imagination is usually nothing but the search for middle run profits by those to whom short run channels are blocked. When — Immanuel Wallerstein

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me. — Sharon Jones

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black. — Isaac Marion

There was a certain liberation in talking to a man who didn't have a full grasp of English. She could tell him anything and half of it would fly right past him, especially if the words came tumbling out fast enough — Anne Tyler

Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short. — Irving Howe