Blowups For The Yard Quotes & Sayings

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. — Randy Alcorn

You know you can't just run and shoot people in the knee-caps with double barreled shotgun 'cause you're pissed at them. — Eddie Murphy

I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine. — Richard Branson

Yeah, well, I tried to explain that my mind powers don't work on Tuesdays. — Kelly Creagh

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new. — Barack Obama

Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make. — Ryan Holiday

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. — John Cheever

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come. — Colum McCann

Christ provides us with settings that promise stillness. He guides us into havens that encourage comfort. He desires us to seek and secure moments of rest so that our souls might be renewed. — Baker Publishing Group

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept? — Pablo Neruda

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived. — Monte Irvin

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall. — Marisha Pessl