Chuchina Quotes & Sayings

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time. — Yehuda Amichai

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong ... — Pete Doherty

Little men," he once said, "spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of their deaths they see their lives shattered before them like glass. I've seen them die. They fall away as if they have been pushed, and the expressions on their faces are those of the most unbelieving surprise. Not so, the man who knows the virtues and lives by them. The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God. — Mark Helprin

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting. — James Fenton

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help. — Jeremy Lin

We shall become, or we shall overcome. — Anthony Liccione