Beauport The Sleeper Mccann Quotes & Sayings

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes. — Leon Wieseltier

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions. — Virgilia Peterson

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson

But by the way he's looking at everything in the room but me, I think he knows that he didn't really explain why. And by the way I'm looking at everything in the room but him, I know that I don't really need him to. — Gayle Forman

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence. — Cal Thomas

After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window. — Deanna Raybourn

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry. — Amy Tan

I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day. — Rachel Holmes

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting? ... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me? — Wallace Stegner

Judgment and decision making are often considered together. — Pearl Zhu

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone — Clint Eastwood

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making. — Eula Biss

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. — Russell Baker

The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
Show up or choose to be present,
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome. — Angeles Arrien