Becki Tilley Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver

I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey. — Jeffrey R. Anderson

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its
greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual
references to the sacrifices and glories of the past. — Joseph Howe

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. — Patrice Leconte

I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough. — Elisabeth Marbury

When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers.
And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep. — Miriam Hopkins

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking. — Sarah Dessen

In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. — Harold Bloom

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt. — Eric Weiner

I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do. — Nicholas II Of Russia

The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now. — Rand Paul