Basketball Season Opener Quotes & Sayings

The whole world is a very narrow bridge. And the most important thing is not to be afraid. — Nachman Of Breslov

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! — Oscar Wilde

When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips. — Stephan Pastis

Lady, I've trained for months. I've taken down your helicopters with only a slingshot. I've looked a librarian right in the area where most creatures would have eyes. You. Do. Not. Scare me. — Joseph Fink

Pierre-Jean Jouve writes: "poetry is a soul inaugurating form". The soul inaugurates. Here it is the supreme power. It is human dignity. Even if the "form" was already well-known, previously discovered, carved from "commonplaces", before the interior poetic light was turned upon it, it was a mere object for the mind. But the soul comes and inaugurates the form, dwells in it, takes pleasure in it. — Gaston Bachelard

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Knowles had always been a pain in the ass. A wannabe who never was and never would be. — Kenneth Eade

I ask you again / You who watch / How can there ever be any ending but this? First silence / Then darkness. — Ben Power

Could I make tongue say more than tongue could utter! Could I make brain grasp more than brain could think! Could I weave into immortal denseness some small brede of words, pluck out of sunken depths the roots of living, some hundred thousand magic words that were as great as all my hunger, and hurl the sum of all my living out upon three hundred pages - then death could take my life, for I had lived it ere he took it: I had slain hunger, beaten death! — Thomas Wolfe

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. — Alex Turner

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust. — Hans Jonas

I can't,' I say.
Her mind closes like a shutter, with finality.
I wish, at that moment, that I had said something else. — Tade Thompson