Communities To Write Quotes & Sayings

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes something makes perfect sense, and then it's a complete mystery when you look at it the next day, — Dana Reinhardt

I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about. — Ann Cleeves

And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities. — Amy Waldman

Small but growing is better than big and stuck. — David Waweru

My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother. — Sharon Doubiago

He turned to look at her, and she was smiling at him. It was Noys as she had been, and his own heart beating as it had used to. — Anonymous

There is no truth.
There is only perception
and perception is reality! — Manoj Vaz

In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe. — Bassam Tibi

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden. — Tom Douglas

Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries. — Geraldine Brooks

The first priority is to guard one's own integrity. — Steven Redhead

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village. — Dean Cavanagh

We're forced to walk a difficult line by this insistence that we only write about our personal journeys," I told the audience. "We end up in this position of only being allowed to represent ourselves, but having to make sure we don't misrepresent everyone. This creates some division in our communities - everyone has their own opinion about what's good representation and what isn't, and you can't please them all." (p. 231) — Juliet Jacques

When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster. — Mick Jagger