Detremmerie Kiwi Quotes & Sayings

Could we live it over again, Were it worth the pain, Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead! — Oscar Wilde

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. — Robert Pinsky

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society. — George Washington

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done. — Thierry Henry

Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties — Elizabeth Blair Lee

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. — Huddie William Ledbetter

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Stuart Sherman

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?' — Gracie Gold

The Tree of Folklore has no objection whatever to creative carpenters. — Terry Pratchett

We pledge to you in our name ... that we will resist the invaders. — Saddam Hussein

Or maybe just an amphetamine freak? Clark's thoughts wandered to a particularly exciting week in Toronto, eighteen or nineteen years old, when he and Arthur had accepted some pills from a new friend at a dance club and stayed up for seventy-two hours straight. — Emily St. John Mandel

Few great men would have got past personnel. — Paul Goodman

We'll sleep together tonight trying to fit ourselves inside the wallpaper. — Charles Bukowski

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. — Isaac Marion

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing ... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. ) — Robert Crumb