Galperti Quotes & Sayings

The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning. — Buddy Wakefield

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools. — Larry Kramer

It is perhaps true that the criminal who embraces a holy cause is more ready to risk his life and go to extremes in its defense than people who are awed by the sanctity of life and property. — Eric Hoffer

It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another. — Aaron Brookner

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left. — Vera Wang

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen

Oh, you're an expert in crazy people now?"
"A month with you and I feel I have a master's degree in the subject. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support. — Lita Ford

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau