Best American Pageant Quotes & Sayings

Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse. — Margaret Atwood

There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card. — Erika Swyler

An entomologist is not a bug. — Kenneth Rexroth

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. — Christopher Fry

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do — Aristotle.

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal. — Yitzhak Rabin

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster. — William Landay

We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx! — J.G. Holland

Love and friendship are a respect of the beauty of these feelings when they hurt deeply the respect stopped — Adele Mandez

laid out the quill, ink, sand, and paper. — Susan Martins Miller

Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction. — Abhijit Naskar

If your mind and heart are in the same place, you can do whatever you want. — Adrienne Woods

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead. — Serj Tankian