Gabors Near Quotes & Sayings

The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer. — Brenda Hillman

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back. — Daphne Gottlieb

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same. — Philip Larkin

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten. — Charles Bowden

Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb. — Ahmed Rashid

Nothing important can be taught, only learned. — Dale Dauten

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great. — Helen Mirren

You can figure out by sheer logic that if you were only - and I mean only - to stay with your desires and preferences, and if you were never - and I mean never - to stray into unrealistic demands that your desires have to be fulfilled, you could very rarely disturb, really disturb, yourself about anything. Why? Because your preferences start off with, "I would very much like or prefer to have success, approval, or comfort," and then end with the conclusion, "But I don't have to have it. I won't die without it. And I could be happy (though not as happy) without it. — Albert Ellis

I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work. — David Wain

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. — Thomas Hobbes