Cheska Diaz Quotes & Sayings

It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is dying, and the only place where the same feeling exists now is here, in the city, millions of people all breathing the same air. This, here, now, is more utopia than utopia, more than your pretty little house out in the middle of the forest with only woodchucks for neighbors. Can't you see? All of we kids are here, almost all of the kids from Arcadia, are here in the city. We've gone urban because we're all looking for what we lost. This is the only place that approximates it. The closeness. The connection. — Lauren Groff

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. — Thomas Sowell

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies. — Laura Poitras

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it. — Michael Sims

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. — Tim O'Brien

And yet. To commit to Sam was to commit to the likelihood of more loss. — Jojo Moyes

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. — Bayard Rustin

I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again. — Antonia Michaelis

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed. — Bob Newhart