Ffftp Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein remarked that one writes for oneself and for strangers, which I translate as speaking both to myself (which is what great poetry teaches us how to do) and to those dissident readers around the world who in solitude instinctually reach out for quality in literature, disdaining the lemmings who devour J. K. Rowling and Stephen King as they race down the cliffs to intellectual suicide in the gray ocean of the Internet. — Harold Bloom

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain. — Audrey Tautou

I only know what I have seen. What I have not seen doesn't make my heart heavy. — Barack Obama

The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue ... your job is to keep them all where they belong. — Johnny Rutherford

-and our lips meet with feels
like not slow motion
but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether. — Sarah Tregay

There's no need for thanks. Family takes care of family. Simple as that. — Jennifer Estep

God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it. — John Calvin

She and Jon had been startled and a little frighented by his misery. What happened when you were married, she realized, was that, although you began as two independent people, you eventually grew in certain ways to accommodate your partner's weaknesses and let other parts of you atrophy in deference to his strengths. It was a fine system as long as it endured, but if you extricated yourself from it you couldn't help but be, a least for a time, deformed. — Christina Schwarz

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu. — Swami Vivekananda

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time. — Emile Zola