Compostsifter Quotes & Sayings

To have one man's nut lay against another man's is a most awkward position to find oneself. — Jason R. Koivu

I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime. — Angela Lansbury

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. — Theodore Roethke

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core
the fountain
of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") — Audre Lorde

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. — Gary Locke

I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems. — Wayne Thiebaud

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God — Tertullian

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent. — Steve Burns

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus — J. P. McEvoy

Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away. — Ahdaf Soueif

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes - one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. — Stephen Jay Gould