Best American Poetry 1999 Quotes & Sayings

When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings. — Adam D'Angelo

Words are more thoughts;
the photographed images always
ends up having a romantic gloss about it
- no matter how I try to avoid it. — Robert Frank

Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep? — Galway Kinnell

This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away. — Chard DeNiord

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.' — Oren Peli

Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other. — William Matthews

She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart. — Russell Edson

You saved me, you should remember me. — Louise Gluck

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come. — Meg Rosoff

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier. — Margaret Atwood

It's only when we understand that in Jesus we are cleansed, washed, and renewed that we see our sin fall by the wayside. — Jefferson Bethke