Edgar Allan Guest Quotes & Sayings

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself. — Ezra Taft Benson

In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete. — Yakov Smirnoff

And he does not plant to no purpose. — J.R.R. Tolkien

An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery — Sunday Adelaja

A grown child is a dangerous thing. — Alice Walker

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment. — Squarepusher

When you go into the psych ward, you can't have anything with you except colored pencils. You can't have any electronics. If you have a drawstring on your pants, a belt, shoelaces, a hood, or extra-long fabric, your very clothes are ripped off your back. They search you with a metal detector like you're a criminal, doing everything short of putting their hand up your butt. Before you go through those cold, automatic, barred doors, you know your life is not your own. This is especially true during the first week, while you stare at florescent lighting and wait impatiently for your meds to kick in. I wish I had remembered the psych ward prison cell a week ago. If I had, maybe I wouldn't be wearing this hospital gown that they gave me until I can get more compliant clothes. — Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT. — Marv Albert

You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It's a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red A's on our chests. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are. — Stephen L. Carter

They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them. — Cormac McCarthy

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving — Confucius

Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair. — Sharon Brous

Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us. — Gia Russell