Gainas Animal Quotes & Sayings

The poet Gary Snyder's finely unpoetic image of composting is useful here. Stuff goes into the writer, a whole lot of stuff, not notes in a notebook but everything seen and heard and felt all day every day, a lot of garbage, leftovers, dead leaves, eyes of potatoes, artichoke stems, forests, streets, rooms in slums, mountain ranges, voices, screams, dreams, whispers, smells, blows, eyes, gaits, gestures, the touch of a hand, a whistle in the night, the slant of light on the wall of a child's room, a fin in a waste of waters. All this stuff goes down into the novelist's personal compost bin, where it combines, recombines, changes; gets dark, mulchy, fertile, turns into ground. A seed falls into it, the ground nourishes the seed with the richness that went into it, and something grows. But what grows isn't an artichoke stem and a potato eye and a gesture. It's a new thing, a new whole. It's made up. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. — Joyce Carol Oates

boron - boro — World Translation Dictionaries

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass. — Alan Shearer

Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so. — Yukio Mishima

I didn't know what to say, but one thing was for sure: The Bank of Ted was closed. — Pete Hautman

Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies. — Roberto Hogue

It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

So said Tochihuitzin,
so said Coyolchiuhqui:

We come out of the dream suddenly,
we only come to dream,
it isn't true, it isn't true
that we come to live on the earth.
Like grass in spring
is our being.

Our heart makes them grow,
flowers sprout from our flesh.
Some open their corollas,
then they become dry.

So said Tochihuitzin. — Nezahualcoyotl

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin. — Jane Hamilton

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is ... beside the point. — Rich Lowry

Computer technology functions more as a new mode of transportation than as a new means of substantive communication. It moves information - lots of it, fast, and mostly in a calculating mode. The computer, in fact, makes possible the fulfillment of Descartes' dream of the mathematization of the world. Computers make it easy to convert facts into statistics and to translate problems into equations. And whereas this can be useful (as when the process reveals a pattern that would otherwise go unnoticed), it is diversionary and dangerous when applied indiscriminately to human affairs. — Neil Postman

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film! — Sean Bean