Degenaro Peelgren Quotes & Sayings

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do. — Hillary Clinton

A vicious monster came from nowhere and kicked the car sideways — J.M.K. Walkow

He tried to escape he could not
Cut the binding cord of human love [ ... ]
Sweet venom
His arrivals were swift
And his departures sudden
I couldn't understand how
He lifted the shower door
Right off its hinges [ ... ]
Love you he coughed and kissed me
See you next week he was out
The door like a thousand other times [ ... ]
Most reckless of
reckless angels — Edward Hirsch

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face. — Peter Hedges

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. — Gail Caldwell

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention. — Robert Irwin

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. — David Pajo

They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and tobacco may be intemperately pursued to the detriment of their devotees; yet, to my mind, one cannot have too much of a good murder. — William Roughead

Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Alone with Alex? I'd rather get a root canal. — Mandy Hubbard

I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me. — Sam Dew