Catawampus Quotes & Sayings

Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again. — L.M. Montgomery

Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don't usually let you be anything greater than that. And that's one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it's like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you'd like to be. You just have to choose it. — Ricky Williams

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. — Edward Hirsch

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous. — Rudolfo Anaya

Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words ... "Thy will be done." — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Besides, how could I trust them, when I couldn't even trust myself? — Lee Nichols

I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible. — Chigozie Obioma

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real. — Obie Trice

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything. — Jeremy Grantham

No matter what we are or who created us, we're all energy. And energy that becomes bound together by love cannot be torn apart. Not by time. Not by grief and pain. Not even the veil of death. — Callie Hart

When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda. — Peter Englund

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. — Warren Buffett