Anglicizing Names Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it. — Shane McCrae

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. — Christopher Hitchens

How brave a ladybug must be!
Each drop of rain is big as she.
Can you imagine what you'd do,
If raindrops fell as big as you? — Aileen Fisher

Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. - Krishna. — Anonymous

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. — Michelangelo

If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything. — Hermann Hesse

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches. — Andre Leon Talley

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. — Dani Shapiro

Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to our Romans, from the street sweepers to the consuls, a vague sense of confidence where no confidence is and at the same time a pervasive fear, a fear which neither arouses to action nor calls forth ingenuity, but which paralyzes. They remove from men's shoulders the unremitting obligation to create, moment by moment, their own Rome. They come to us sanctioned by the usage of our ancestors and breathing the security of our childhood; they flatter passivity and console inadequacy — Thornton Wilder

Despite a frenzy of East-West diplomacy and negotiations, there was little sign that tensions were easing. — Anonymous

There is a bit of a 'once a soap actor always a soap actor' thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If you're good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it. — Judi Shekoni