Akelapan Quotes & Sayings

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be. — Neil Gaiman

You know what they say. When God slams a door on your fingers, he opens a window so you can scream for help. — Jennifer Sommersby

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.. — Martin Buber

I'd rather be the bastard daughter of a prostitute than ever share your blood. — Tarryn Fisher

The old women in black at early Mass in winter
are a problem for him. He could tell by their eyes
they have seen Christ. They make the kernel
of his being and the clarity around it
seem meager, as though he needs girders
to hold up his unusable soul. But he chooses
against the Lord. He will not abandon his life.
Not his childhood, not the ninety-two bridges
across the two rivers of his youth. Nor the mills
along the banks where he became a young man
as he worked. The mills are eaten away, and eaten
again by the sun and its rusting. He needs them
even though they are gone, to measure against.
The silver is worn down to the brass underneath
and is the better for it. He will gauge
by the smell of concrete sidewalks after night rain.
He is like an old ferry dragged on to the shore,
a home in its smashed grandeur, with the giant beams
and joists. Like a wooden ocean out of control.
A beached heart. A cauldron of cooling melt. — Jack Gilbert

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association. — Leland Stanford

Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. — Robert Breault

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA. — Eric Thomas

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. — Naomi Judd

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year! — Cate Blanchett