Carol Ann Duffy Originally Quotes & Sayings

My secrets are petty but humiliating. — Mason Cooley

I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom? — Catherine Jinks

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann

Intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When — Matt Taibbi

Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does. — Frederick Lenz

Our father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
hollow be thy promises
and shallow be thy shame.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
On a scale from on to ten,
our Lord is totally eleven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
toasted close to dawn,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we shoot those who trespass on our lawn,
and lead us not into temptation,
such as pot or porno,
but deliver us from evil
(if not delivery, then DiGiorno). — Bo Burnham

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water. — Zak Ebrahim

Life is a one-way journey without stopping or any U-turns. — Debasish Mridha

Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities. — Michael Eric Dyson

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'. — Chris Kirkpatrick

The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens. — Justine Kurland

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers. — Penn Jillette

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom. — Rachel Naomi Remen

The woman wasn't Mr. Kahn's sister. She was Mr. Kahn. — Sara Shepard