Communaut Quotes & Sayings

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that. — John Burnside

Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality. — Elizabeth Hardwick

There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations. — Ted Gup

When he spoke to people in the flesh, he could never tell what had put them off, his message or his person. — Michael Lewis

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

That he'd seen ... two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates. — Megan Whalen Turner

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations. — Gustav Heinemann

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going. — L.J.Smith

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am. — Stephen Marley

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might. — Jonah Winter

What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[ ... ] 'How many lives Richard?'[ ... ]'One.'. — Richard Bach

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small. — Phillips Brooks

Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power. — James Tiptree Jr.

Every choice we make in life is an experiment. — Charles Duhigg

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences. — Walt Whitman