Captain Mandolin Quotes & Sayings

Because I sensed in him the magic of a poet, a storyteller who can bind you with tales of things that had never been and could never be. And I felt myself so bound. Pulled under. At a loss for breath in his presence, just as I once was in a river, clinging to life. — Stephanie Dray

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I'm a thinkin' my old man won't know de boys and de baby. Lor'! she's de biggest gal, now, - good she is, too, and peart, Polly is. She's out to the house, now, watchin' de hoe-cake. I 's got jist de very pattern my old man liked so much, a bakin'. Jist sich as I gin him the mornin' he was took off. Lord bless us! how I felt, dat ar morning!" Mrs. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

He who has lived and thought can never
Help in his soul despising men,
He who has felt will be forever
Haunted by days he can't regain.
For him there are no more enchantments,
Him does the serpent of remembrance,
Him does repentance always gnaw.
All this will frequently afford
A great delight to conversations. — Alexander Pushkin

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz

To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams — Rob Shepherd

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! — Lord Byron

I'm not here to tell you how to be a feminist, or whether you should be one at all.
I call myself a feminist fo fuck with people, and because it's a great way
to weed out the creeps in bars, but feminism isn't an identity.
Feminism is a process. Call yourself what you like.
The important thing is what you fight for. Begin it now. — Laurie Penny