Colon Blow Quotes & Sayings

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow. — Joni Mitchell

To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who know absolutely that others exist and therefore feels drawn to please them, because to give them an instant of pleasure is to acknowledge their existence. — Patricia Hampl

In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence. — John Kenneth Galbraith

... we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people ... — Louisa May Alcott

I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then I'll indulge ... but then the next day or two I'll really be strict. I learned that from Dolly Parton, by the way! — Kimberly Schlapman

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. — Yann Martel

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet. — Anna Quindlen

I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good. — Matt Barr

Don't let anyone say you can't do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don't get that. — John Ilhan

Spring is like a perhaps hand
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully
spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and
without breaking anything. — E. E. Cummings

I'm beginning to think I need you like I need oxygen — Rachel Gibson