Anthologized Quotes & Sayings

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive. — Marianne Williamson

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. — Andy Puddicombe

Remember that you are here for more than a bunch of flesh. — M.F. Moonzajer

In 'Colonization in Reverse'41 (a famous poem much anthologized) the speaker is presented as a more or less reliable commentator who implies that Jamaicans who come to 'settle in de motherlan' are like English people who settled in the colonies. West Indian entrepreneurs, shipping off their countrymen 'like fire', turn history upside down. Fire can destroy, but may also be a source of warmth to be welcomed in temperate England. Those people who 'immigrate an populate' the seat of the Empire seem, like many a colonizer, ready to displace previous inhabitants. 'Jamaica live fi box bread/Out a English people mout' plays on a fear that newcomers might exploit the natives; and some of the immigrants are - like some of the colonizers from 'the motherland' - lazy and inclined to put on airs. Can England, who faced war and braved the worst, cope with people from the colonies turning history upside down? Can she cope with 'Colonizin in reverse'? — Mervyn Morris

We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life. — Danielle Ganek

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that — Koushun Takami

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me. — Alan Furst

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper. — E. M. Forster

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest. — Jack Welch

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound

Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said. — Lisa Kleypas

They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets. — J.D. Salinger

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project. — Brian Herbert

I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name. — J.R. Moehringer

I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats. — Billy Collins