Eimile Mckinnon Quotes & Sayings

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. — Ernest Hemingway,

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more. — James Purdy

The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.
He breathed its oxygen,
Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.
It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction
How he had recomposed the pines,
Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds
For the outlook that would be right,
Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion:
The exact rock where his inexactness
Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged
Where he could lie and gazing down at the sea,
Recognize his unique and solitary home. — Wallace Stevens

Is it possible that, with each inhalation, we take in the world and awaken our soul? And with each exhalation, do we free ourselves of the world, which inevitably entangles us? Is this how we fill up and empty a hundred times a day, always seeking the gift of the two breaths? Perhaps this is the work of being. — Mark Nepo

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum. — William Boyd

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP. — Lee Kuan Yew

I can't let me hear this, but it's too late. The facts sneak in and stab me. — Laurie Halse Anderson

My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths? — Mikhail Kalashnikov