Clocktower Close Quotes & Sayings

Face death, but choose life. — C.J. Abedi

Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak. — Karl Popper

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is. — Terry Pratchett

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. — Martin Van Buren

When I read poetry, I want to feel myself suddenly larger ... in touch with - or at least close to - what I deem magical, astonishing. I want to experience a kind of wonderment. And when you report back to your own daily world after experiencing the strangeness of a world sort of recombined and reordered in the depths of a poet's soul, the world looks fresher somehow. Your daily world has been taken out of context. It has the voice of the poet written all over it, for one thing, but it also seems suddenly more alive ... — Mark Strand

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing. — Garry Marshall

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — T. S. Eliot

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.

but i have hope
because i do not know everything. — AVA.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. — John Ray

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack. — Charles B. Rangel

I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it. — Slim Jimmy