Cetron Quotes & Sayings

I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head. — Neil Gaiman

I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it. — Jimmy Carter

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process. — Fay Godwin

Memory in these incomparable streets, in mosaics of pain and sweetness, was clear to me now, a unity at last. I remembered small and unimportant things from the past: the whispers of roommates during thunderstorms, the smell of brass polish on my fingertips, the first swim at Folly Beach in April, lightning over the Atlantic, shelling oysters at Bowen's Island during a rare Carolina snowstorm, pigeons strutting across the graveyard at St. Philip's, lawyers moving out of their offices to lunch on Broad Street, the darkness of reveille on cold winter mornings, regattas, the flash of bagpipers' tartans passing in review, blue herons on the marshes, the pressure of the chinstrap on my shako, brotherhood, shad roe at Henry's, camellias floating above water in a porcelain bowl, the scowl of Mark Santoro, and brotherhood again. — Pat Conroy

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. — Francine Prose

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion. — John Courtney Murray

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems. — Pattiann Rogers

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame. — Neil Young

His thoughts skirted Sandy and especially Grace as if they were fatal chasms into which he might tumble. — Anthony Doerr