Evgenia Tarasova Quotes & Sayings

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food. — Confucius

Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another. — Diane Glancy

In water so fine, a few minutes of bad memory all but disappear downstream, washed away by ten thousand belly busters, a million cannonballs. Paradise was never heaven-high when I was a boy but waist-deep, an oasis of cutoff blue jeans and raggedy Converse sneakers, sweating bottles of Nehi Grape and Orange Crush, and this stream. I remember the antidote of icy water against my blistered skin, and the taste of mushy tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches, unwrapped from twice-used aluminum foil. I saw my first water moccasin here, and my first real girl, and being a child of the foot washers I have sometimes wondered if this was my Eden, and my serpent. If it was, I didn't hold out any longer than that first poor fool did. — Rick Bragg

Life is about finding yourself in the magnificence of life. — Debasish Mridha

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148) — Elizabeth Strout

Is it possible to be totally partial? — Steven Wright

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen. — Bill Huizenga

Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives. — Maya Rodale

There's no Hell to spite the sinners. There's no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine. — Neil Gaiman

My husband Chris, the thing he likes most about me is that I'm very positive and easily very happy. — Elsa Pataky

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis. — Philip K. Dick

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. — Carrie Brownstein