Casasola Cornell Quotes & Sayings

14. Indifference
I SAID, - for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,
"I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;
But I'll never leave my pillow, though there be some
As would let him in - and take him in with tears!" I said.
I lay, - for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn, - 5
I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep;
And he found me at my window with my big cloak on,
All sorry with the tears some folks might weep! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either. — Bakari Kitwana

My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all ... — Carew Papritz

The window to the past opened up to her like a dragon's maw, dark and jagged, an abyss licked with fire. — Lara Adrian

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. — G.K. Chesterton

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. — Henry David Thoreau

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now. — Kendrick Lamar

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in. — Karrine Steffans

The best strategy is always to be very strong. — Carl Von Clausewitz

But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged. — Carol D. Leonnig

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem. — Imran Khan

When I was just a boy, my father was teaching me to mix bilewort, holly seeds, and elephant ear to make a draft that would plant the seeds in the subject's stomach, resulting in a very festive arrangement bursting from their mouths a few weeks after application. When we finished, he spread a bit of the stuff on my tongue, like a sacrament - for my parents believed sincerely that death was a sacred covenant between poisoner and condemned, and like all sacred things, required due reverence. We give a person the world distilled, and thus deliver them from it. What more profound act can there be? — Catherynne M Valente

And even though I'd cried in my bed every night since, feeling his phantom arms around me, it had been worth eight hours Saturday night. The pleasure then was worth the pain now. — Nicole Williams

No brain is stronger than its weakest think. — Thomas Lansing Masson