Bernice Jenkins Quotes & Sayings

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive. — William Wordsworth

Hate is love turned bad. — Amish Tripathi

A Sonnet is a
moment's
monument,
Memorial from the
Soul's eternity
To one dead
deathless hour. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Part of the art of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places
Henry Miller
As you put yourself and your work out there, you will run into your fellow knuckleballers. These are your real peers-the people who share your obsessions, the people who share a similar mission to your own, the people with whom you share a mutual respect. There will only be a handful or so of them, but they're so, so important. Do what you can to nurture your relationships with these people. Show them work before you show anybody else. Keep them as close as you can. — Austin Kleon

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded. — John Darnielle

Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio. — Juan Manuel Fangio

Castiza: "False! I defy you both!
I have endured you with an ear of fire;
Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face!
Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."
Gratiana: "Where?"
Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then. — Thomas Middleton

Galadir went to meet Morwen, across the lawn. Under sunlight, the Prince was extraordinarily beautiful. His skin was smooth and almost golden. And his eyes ... It was as if they had absorbed the light rays. They were pure honey. — Chiara Cilli

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. — Nat Friedman

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before. — Lorin Stein

I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.
("Sir Edmund Orme") — Henry James

Life is a most wonderful but wild dream. — Debasish Mridha

How you accept a situation, is your choice and depends on your power of perception. — Debasish Mridha

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to. — Nipsey Hussle