Claude Henry Smoot Quotes & Sayings

And, you know, when all is said and done, it really is better to wind up feeling scared and stupid than not feel anything at all. — Autumn Doughton

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. — Richard Serra

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear! — Emily Dickinson

We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic. — Conor Oberst

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet. — W. H. Auden

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed. — Joseph Altuzarra

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong. — P. J. O'Rourke

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it. — Kim Gordon

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself. — Adrienne Rich

Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.

Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.

And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains. — You Jin

And there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden color, and it is falling on her face in a way that makes it seem gilded. For a moment, L.D. looks to me like an angel. Another case of illusion only being the larger truth. — Elizabeth Berg

I could either succumb to the nightmares I've raised or paint them. — Thomm Quackenbush

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. — David Hume