Denek Poured Quotes & Sayings

What care though rival cities soar
Along the stormy coast,
Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story. — Jennifer Gilmore

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people. — Joe Strummer

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes. — Tony Williams

To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.' — Sage Stallone

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. — Charles Baudelaire

In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it. — Glenn Turner

You don't have to prove something to feel it, to know it exists. — Ally Broadfield

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross. — D. A. Carson

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T.E. Lawrence

I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind? — Harry Belafonte

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given — Bertrand Russell

If I could offer only one key to understanding this divine dialogue, it would be to remember that it takes place in the depths of consciousness and that Krishna is not some external being, human or superhuman, but the spark of divinity that lies at the core of the human personality. This is not literary or philosophical conjecture; Krishna says as much to Arjuna over and over: "I am the Self in the heart of every creature, Arjuna, and the beginning, middle, and end of their existence" (10:20). — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

I like you."
"That's tough, Joan," I said, picking up my book. "Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know."
And I walked out of the room, leaving Joan lying, lumpy as an old horse, across my bed. — Sylvia Plath