Fulenwider Ford Quotes & Sayings

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself. — Wislawa Szymborska

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college? — Jamaica Kincaid

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. — Jacques Audiard

Peace on earth begins with birth. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things. — Jean Rhys

I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key. — Michael Keaton

Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place. — Desmond Tutu

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation. — Samuel Butler

Be not solitary, be not idle — Robert Burton

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way. — Chris D'Lacey

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. — Carl Sagan