Classicists List Quotes & Sayings

In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner. — Abigail Washburn

Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes - sometimes tragic mistakes - then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were. — J.D. Brewer

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless — Victor Hugo

In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner. — Darmie Orem

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience. — Betty White

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens? — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. — Duke Ellington

After I heard that I had had a heart attack, how I lived in my body changed, and my doctor should have found a way to let me know he recognized that. — Arthur W. Frank

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it. — Sam Lipsyte

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm — William Shakespeare

I'm not interested until I see their execution. — Derek Sivers

I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that. — Patterson Hood

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

When one's married for so long, always walking on four feet and always
breathing double breaths and thinking every thought twice through and
the time between the main things is packed double full with minor
details - then, sometimes, naturally, one yearns like an arrow for one
whole space thin as air. And you start up in the night, terrified by
your own breathing, which had just been going along as evenly without
you. But you don't rise up free - or even really as far as your knees
- not once. You strike a match. And there's one of you right there,
wrapped in flesh. Only then is it love. — Robert Musil

There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries. — Oscar Wilde