Almosenberg Quotes & Sayings

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words. — Ted Hughes

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining. — Edward Hoagland

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern

That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something ... And if you do it, you'll be happier. — William J. Clinton

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music. — George Duke

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them! — Ben Jonson

Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment - the most priceless of human treasures - are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen - who make "good" things happen - in the world around them. Joe Klock — Deena B. Chopra

Don't just declutter, de-own. — Joshua Becker

All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever. — A.E. Housman

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer. — Kiese Laymon

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me! — Ronnie Wood

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style. — Jim Rohn