Evaccs Quotes & Sayings

The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. — Elena Ferrante

Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind. — Ernest J. Gaines

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. — Walter Scott

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing. — Lena Headey

You can cry about how things aren't fair, or you can stand tall and make things fair. — David Dalglish

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern. — Susan Orlean

You can't make souffle rise twice. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, Save what is in destroying, other joy To me is lost. Then — John Milton

It worked out neatly, yet it had all changed for him, and what was broken could not be made whole again. — Isaac Asimov

Love like life should be maddening to the point of fulfillment. It should make the sun shine brighter, and when they look at you, the earth should never be standing still. — Nicole Banks

Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon? — Lizabeth Scott

I feel like the word shatter. — Margaret Atwood

Even in hardship, God's goodness prevails. — Todd Stocker