Elethea Boat Quotes & Sayings

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It is an interesting, though idle, speculation, what would be the effect on us if all our reformers, revolutionaries, planners, politicians, and life-arrangers in general were soaked in Homer from their youth up, like the Greeks. They might realize that on the happy day when there is a refrigerator in every home, and two in none, when we all have the opportunity of working for the common good (whatever that is), when Common Man (whoever he is) is triumphant, though not improved--that men will still come and go like the generations of leaves in the forest; that he will still be weak, and the gods strong and incalculable; that the quality of a man matters more than his achievement; that violence and recklessness will still lead to disaster, and that this will fall on the innocent as well as on the guilty. — H.D.F. Kitto

When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America. — Donald Trump

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body. — John Keats

If we must think, it should be done only in circles, outside of which lies the unthinkable. — Thomas Ligotti

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just
enough to live with. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez