Faily Brakes Quotes & Sayings

I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry. — Christian Wiman

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live. — Peter Steele

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about. — Robert Stone

What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership. — James E. Faust

A lovely horse is always an experience ... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. — Beryl Markham

Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities, surface towards us, then sink away. Some we hook out, others we ignore, and as the pattern changes, so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time, which returns everything, changes everything. — Jeanette Winterson

The unity of a great era is generally an illusion. — Harold Bloom

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too — Paul Cezanne

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down. — Joel Edgerton

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. — Jim Dietz

Here, I stole it for you. Why don't you tell me what it's for."
"Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present! — Gail Carriger

Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe

I'm sorry, but it appears something more fabulous than your phone call is happening right now. When fabulous levels fall a bit, I'll get back to you. BEEP. — John Green

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde