Ekimini Quotes & Sayings

I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious — Frank O'Hara

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. — Terry Eagleton

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments. — Gregory Maguire

Sadistic is the word for it. God in the Old Testament wasn't anyone's pal. — Tiffany Reisz

No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority. — Kevin Abdulrahman

The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning. — Chuck Klosterman

White looked at him and said, "What are you thinking about?" He said, "The contradiction between rule one and the rest of it. We mustn't burn the Iranian. Which means we can't go anywhere near the messenger. We can't even stake out a location the messenger leads us to. Because we don't know the messenger exists. Not unless we got an inside whisper." "That's an impediment," Waterman said. "Not a contradiction. We'll find a way to work around it. They need that guy. — Lee Child

Human, we treat them as we treat others, take for granted services to which they did not pretend. But we force telephones to corrupt intimacy while they pretend to preserve it by keeping alive only its dangerous immediate symptoms. Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to. There, now we are apart! — William Gaddis

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms. — Robert Jeffress

Not chance...choice. What we do is more important than what happens." From 'Beauty In The Bones — Holly Gonzalez