Beaconstac Quotes & Sayings

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one's loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and not simply a hopeless haunting. It can do these things for one person, or it can do them for an entire culture. But poetry is for psychological, spiritual, or emotional pain. For physical pain it is, like everything but drugs, useless. — Christian Wiman

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. — Daniel Libeskind

but all things considered, he could go a very long time not being run over by a Volvo again and feel just dandy about it. He — Christopher Moore

Don't believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself. — Bill Courtney

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies. — J. William Fulbright

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us. — Daisaku Ikeda

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. — Karl Barth

Ah, but surely you must now be saying, "waitaminute, tuna fish would go bad if you kept it in your pocket for weeks and weeks without refrigerating it."
To that I simply say: You obviously haven't read Professor P.S. Schackman's informative book How to Keep Tuna Fish in Your Pocket for Weeks and Weeks Without it Going Bad. I suggest you read it before complaining about the tuna situation again. — Jason Carter Eaton

I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky. — Haile Gebrselassie

Beware of the brains you invade. — Mark Hodder

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money. — Robin Williams