Beadsman For One Quotes & Sayings

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. — C. K. Williams

Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart. — Adeline Yen Mah

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity. — Heinz Pagels

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling — Stephen R. Donaldson

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche

trust those that have proven their loyalty. — Adriana Locke

And her eyes. I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me. — David Foster Wallace

A nurse's aid threw the contents of a patient's water glass out a window, the mass of water hitting the ground dislodging a pebble which rolled across the angled pavement and fell with a click on a stone culvert in the ditch below, startling a squirrel having at some sort of nut right there on the concrete pipe, causing the squirrel to run up the nearest tree, in doing which it disturbed a slender brittle branch and surprised a few nervous morning birds, of of which, preparatory to flight released a black-and-white glob of droppings, which glob fell neatly on the windshield of the tiny car of one Lenore Beadsman, just as she pulled into a parking space. Lenore got out of the car while birds flew away, making sounds. — David Foster Wallace

Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions ... He learns by watching. — Ally Condie

to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing. — Gresham M. Sykes

As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners ... This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country, Ms. Beadsman? ... Both in the middle and on the fringe. The physical heart and the cultural extremity. Corn, a steady waning complex of heavy industry, and sports. What are we to say? We feed and stoke and supply a nation much of which doesn't know we exist. A nation we tend to be decades behind, culturally and intellectually. What are we to say about it? — David Foster Wallace

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it. — Kristan Higgins

deep humility. There is nothing the arrogant hate more. — Stephen Harrod Buhner