Delusa Dalla Quotes & Sayings

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [ ... ] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [ ... ] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton. — Willie Nelson

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols ... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols. — Antonin Artaud

I found out that I'd broken up with someone when I wasn't even aware I was going out with them! — Ella Eyre

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility. — William F. Lynch

Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long. — Florence Stevenson

He could have spent the whole night watching her red lips form the words to the songs. Those lips-they were as bright as the red maple trees that glowed this time of year. Her blue eyes danced with each fast song, a wild swirl of crisp leaves in the autumn wind.

That was how she haunted his heart. Every season, every corner of Gott's good land, he saw Annie there. — Rosalind Lauer

Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese. — Teju Cole

Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists? — Isaac Newton

I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby. — Talib Kweli

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love. — Bell Hooks

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that. — Danica McKellar

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto