Apollinaire Calligrammes Quotes & Sayings

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so. — Satchel Paige

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules ... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed. — S. Jay Olshansky

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods. — John Dewey

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing. — James Fenton

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service. — Linda Sunshine

In the real world anything can happen. It's like stepping onto an icy surface - you have to adjust your footing or you'll slip and fall. — Katie Kacvinsky

It is not until Christians study the humility of Jesus as the very essence of His redemption, as the only true relationship to the Father, that the terrible lack of actual, heavenly humility will become a burden and a sorrow. — Andrew Murray

Okay you guys, pair up in threes! — Yogi Berra

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it. — Spider Robinson

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another. — Dean F. Wilson

I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can. — Alice Walton

We were not desperate for love, we were desperate for each other's love."

The first implies weakness-
the second only heaven — Michael Xavier

I live in a bubble. — Ron Perlman