Emilienne Full Quotes & Sayings

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind. — Mary Ruefle

If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot. — Demetri Martin

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it. — Lee J. Cobb

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way. — Terry Brooks

I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up. — Raekwon

There are other women with baskets, some in red, some in the dull green of the Marthas, some in the striped dresses, red and blue and green and cheap and skimpy, that mark the women of the poorer men. Econowives, — Margaret Atwood

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say. — Aristophanes

I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology. — Greg Graffin

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge. — Brie Larson

... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you. — Nazim Hikmet

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. — Evelyn Waugh

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals. — Marcel Proust

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. — Zora Neale Hurston

I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of the Creator in every human life I ever encountered, and in every human life I took. — Anne Rice